1st Grade Batik Leaf

We discussed how you can make your own paper from pulp and that when you do this there is usually a lot of texture. Now sadly we didn't make our own paper for this project. We took computer paper and drew a leaf in the middle using pencil. We then went over our lines with sharpie. Next we colored in our leafs with crayon. Now for the fun part. We took our paper and crumbled it up, opened it up, and crumbled it up again. Students thought I was crazy when I gave them theses directions. Last we smoothes out the paper as much as possible and painted it with a blue sparkly wash.