This project requests that students draw a certain national monument, by using a visual to refer to when drawing the subject upside down. It is amazingly so much easier to draw an object starting the bottom working your way to the top. So try it! Turn your object upside down and start drawing UP-SIDE DOWN! Once the drawing was complete, cut it out. Use a tray with 1/8 c. of shaving cream smeared evenly on the bottom of the tray, add paint and blend slightly with a comb or a pointed rod. Dip the cut-out into the painted shaving cream. In this project I used warm colors: yellow and red. It gave my cut-out a marbleized look. Once dry, it was displayed on the bulletin board.
The set back experienced in this lesson is that once I had my marbleized pattern my paper was so wet I had to be careful to not tear it as I lifted it out of the shaving cream.
An extension assignment would be to make a parade. The parade would consist of shoe box 'floats'. The shoe box would be decorated according to the state and or country that your national monument came from. i.e. My monument is in Chili, so my shoe-box-float would have items representing that country: items will be printed from clip art/Internet.....flag, flower, animal, license plate, food items, common clothing items, and of course the marbleized project described above.
Finale would be a "Parade" in the classroom.
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