Printmaking art lessons are both engaging for students and a great way to teach a variety of art techniques. Elementary printmaking may look completely different than high school printmaking, but I believe it should be introduced as early as kindergarten and experimented with throughout a child’s education. Here’s a variety of printmaking techniques you can teach your students, beginning with the most basic and increasing in difficulty.

Try out this classroom friendly styrofoam printmaking art lesson with full length tutorials inspired by music and the Harlem Renaissance!

Second nine weeks involves printmaking projects for my 3-5 graders - if you follow me on Instagram (@smartestartists), you know we have been printing up a storm for a while now and we are ready to show off some great results. Printmaking is a favorite medium for me - it has a certain quality that you can't achieve with other methods, and you get multiple prints of your design. Here's a quick breakdown: 5th grade: reductive prints using Lichtenstein's pop art shoes as inspiration, also…

Let me start out by saying this has been one of the most successful and visually stunning projects that I've ever done with my students. It is definitely the most exciting printmaking project that we've ever done at Thomas. I wrote the lesson and went into the project thinking that it would probably be pretty good. I told my students that I'm absolutely blown away by the results of their talent and hard work. This lesson is a keeper. My previous 4th grade printmaking lesson was decent, but…

Learn how to make multiple prints for greeting cards and art for framing using a styrofoam produce tray and paint roller. Terrific art activity for kids of all ages from preschoolers to teens.

Create beautiful cityscapes using scratch foam and watercolors with this easy styrofoam printmaking activity for kids.

Easy, free homeschool curriculum for elementary children, with homeschoool printables and homeschool thematic units.

Abby Jones on Instagram: “I use Melissa and Doug Scratch Foam Board for elementary printmaking. To help with radial printmaking, I draw an arrow on the back of the…”

This week, 4th will be starting their background for the Collagraph printmaking project! This was inspired by the fabul...

Since I've spent the last couple of weeks in Printmaking Land with my second and third graders, I thought I'd share everything I know about printmaking in the elementary art room! I started to record a podcast episode which quickly turned into TWO podcast episodes. There's a lot to printmaking in the elementary art room but none of it is scary, difficult or even all that messy! My kids love it and so do I. So I'll be sharing both podcast episodes here as well as my favorite lessons. Be sure…