Landscape Prints

Hynes UNO Charter School

2nd Grade, Social Studies & Visual Arts

Ms. Brigid / Ms. Russell

Last semester Ms. Russell’s social studies class explored ways to learn about our neighborhoods and communities using the visual arts. One of our projects was a landscape print made from styrofoam stamps.

We began by brainstorming different things that see everyday in our city’s landscape - bridges, the Superdome, cars, houses, towers - and practiced drawing our own. We then transferred those drawings onto a piece of styrofoam by applying pressure with a pencil.

Students then spent a class working individually with Ms. Brigid and Ms. Russell to create their prints, rolling their own ink with a brayer and placing their stamp onto a colorful piece of paper.