Showing posts with label kids prinitmaking. Show all posts
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Thursday, 12 May 2011

Playdough prints (or 'look, we can still make art')

In her playdough play recently, Boo has taken to pressing objects into the dough to create impressions, and it occurred to me that here was some printmaking potential, so we grabbed our chance today, whilst the wee one slept.


You simply roll out the dough to create a flattish surface (not too thin).


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Then you go about pressing objects into the surface to create indentations.


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Roll the printing ink over the surface using a printmaking roller, lay the paper over the top, press gently, and voila!


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Here's some I did...


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... and here's all our prints together...


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I make my own playdough, so I'm not too bothered about it getting covered in printing ink.   Have fun printing!