Printmaking Greeting Cards

       Printmaking Greeting Cards are the perfect project for your students to do during the Holiday season.  For this project, we were required to create a holiday landscape making sure to include objects that were in the foreground, middle ground, and background.  The lesson began with talking about Andy Warhol and his works that involve printmaking.  We started the project by drawing our design on a sheet of white paper that was handed out.  Then we transferred it onto a styrofoam sheet about the same size as the white paper that was handed out.  Then paint was rolled on the styrofoam and then pressed and rolled onto another sheet of white paper.  The paint takes about a day to dry so once the paint was dry we could cut our prints out and glue them on the outside of our cards as shown in the pictures.
       An extension activity for this lesson could be to write a story about the print the students created.  The story would take place in the landscape in their print.  The students would be able to come up with their own characters in their story.  This would be an activity in English class.