In First Grade, my students are studying the stamping process. They have learned that a stamp is a form of printmaking and that every time they dip it into paint, they will produce the same shape over and over. We created a pattern that was either random or organized.
First, the class watched the YouTube reading of the Rainbow Fish. We paused the clip and looked at all of the details in the fish as our inspiration. Then we began our drawing. We measured with our hands (one hand in all all sides) to draw a large oval. Then we added the fins and the tail. We used oil pastels to color in the fins, tail, and eye.
On day two, we rotated stations to stamp our fish. Each station had a color of the rainbow. I told the students that if you are finished before the other people at your station, enjoy watching them finish up, that way no one jumped ahead!
Day three was for cutting out our fish and completing our artist reflection. On the paper, there was a space to draw our fish (if there was time) and two questions: 1. Was your fish stamped in a random or organized pattern? 2. What was your favorite part/ least favorite part?
For the hallway display, I created a large rainbow fish and as a reward, several wonderfully behaved Fifth Graders got to paint it!
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