2nd and 3rd graders learned about printmaking, collage, background, foreground, and most of all texture while creating these very colorful and touchable forests.  We discovered that texture is not only something you feel, but it can also be the way something looks.

First, we cut out cloud shapes and made prints of them using tempera paint and sponges for our forest backgrounds.
Then we made a variety of texture pages, using crayons, rubbing plates, paint, forks, and sponges – and cut trees from them.
Finally, we put our scissors aside and tore leaves from colored paper to complete our texture forests.