Recently due to the coronavirus happening, most of the people around the planet, or maybe in my region are advised to stay home to avoid personal contact with someone who maybe an infected patient.
For that reason and to find ways to spend 24hours at home with my kids, I decided to do some craft works and introducing them that beside of drawing and painting, there’s still other ways to do art that no need to use pencils, brushes and paints.
I introduced them some basic and quick printmaking techniques (linocut and monoprint), but it need to have some adult supervision.
I let them know that carving a rubber can make a stamp and the brayer (ink roller) is a tool to spread paint on the paper.
For making the linocut print, I used the terminology of rubber stamp for my girls to understand easily the name of the material and we only need a carving knive to carve the rubber.
And the other technique is a monoprint that needs to use a brayer (ink roller) to spread ink on a paper, use a clean sheet of paper on top of the inked paper and draw directly on the clean paper. After drawing, flip it and you have the image printed and transferred to the clean paper.
EASY – PEASY!
Just doing and playing these 2 activities already used about 90mins, so if you want to do some parenting activities with your kids, take your action!
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Thank you!