Make an impression!
Create stamps with Sarina Smith from the Kansas Children’s Discovery Center. Sarina is an Art Studio major at Washburn University and loves doing art projects with kids at the museum! Engineer stamps to create artistic masterpieces! This activity is powered by our friends at Evergy.
What you need:
- Cardboard or foam board.
- Scissors.
- Glue or hot glue.
- Various textures: bottle caps, rubber bands, string, etc.
- Paint brush.
- Paper plate.
- Various colored paints.
- Paper.
Directions:
- Cut 3-5 squares out of the cardboard.
- Attach bottle caps, glue, string, etc. to one side of each square.
- Use a paint brush to paint the stamp you made.
- Press the stamp onto paper and add as many as you’d like.
Ways to Expand the Activity:
- On a large sheet of cardboard, attach all the objects you want on one side. Then paint it and press the paper on top of the stamps. This would be a form of printmaking.
What Kids Learn:
- Stamps impress a pattern or mark on a surface using an engraved, inked blocked, or died instrument.
- Texture is the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.
- Print is an indentation or mark left on a surface or soft substance by pressure.
- Printmaking is the transferring of images from one surface to another.