Monoprint Lesson for Kids

Supplies
Tempura Paint
Baking Sheet
Color Paper
Spatula or plastic utensils
Rubber Brayer (optional)
Steps
1. Squirt tempera paint onto the pan (2-3 colors)
2. Use the brayer to smooth it out
3. Use your fingers or Spatula to draw into the paint and make patterns or a picture
4. Place a paper over the top and lightly press it down
5. Take it off and let it dry
6. Make 4-5 prints
7. Make a collage out of the monoprints (optional)
Adaptions
If you are doing this with a large group of children, you can have them make prints one at a
time or they could make them on a plate if you don’t have enough sheet pans
Extensions
Cut out a silhouette or shape and place it on the paint before you put your paper down. The
shape you put down first will be the color of the paper.
Cut out the shape of an animals head out of one monoprint, its eyes out of another, its nose out of another and glue them together.
Artists/Art
Eric Carle
Bryan Wynter, Path Through the Wood
Books
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Brown Bear, Eric Carle
Feathers for Lunch by Elois Ehlert
Homework
Create a collage by cutting shapes out of your monoprints and using a glue stick to put them
together on another paper. You could make it into an animal or person, similar to the art of
Eric Carle.
Vocabulary
Monoprint
monotype
Tips
Keep in mind that whatever you draw or write will print backwards
This tutorial was made by McCall Johnson for Mr Otter Studio
Music A Piano Tale by Immersive Music
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