Kindergarten Creates a Pumpkin Patch

The last two weeks with full day kindergarten have been spent creating a giant pumpkin patch. Through the exciting medium of printmaking we've created this vegetable garden. The kindergartners first created a practice pumpkin on paper. Then they copied their own image onto a Styrofoam plate. From there they cut into the Styrofoam plate with their ballpoint pens, just barely "carving" into the plate. The next week we rolled ink onto our plates with a brayer and then printed the pumpkin on a large black piece of paper. This is always one of my favorite autumn projects. Here are some student examples!