Hi! I took a quick break yesterday to switch blogs for a Hispanic Heritage Month post, but I’m back with day 5 of Easy Art Projects for kids. We made cardboard prints for this project. I’ll bet you have some cardboard lying around, am I right?
Printmaking may be the best way ever to get a kid interested in art. You can make prints with virtually anything that will take paint, and it’s always fun to see what the results are. Plus, you can usually take the prints a step further and experiment with adding any number of mediums to get all sorts of cool art!
There are loads of different printmaking techniques, and while monoprints might be the easiest to make, cardboard prints are totally simple as well.
Materials:
- Cardboard
- Scissors
- Paint or ink (we used acrylics)
- White paper (we used drawing paper- use something thicker than printer paper.)
- Brayer (roller)
Directions:
Cut your cardboard up into shapes.
Glue them to a larger piece of cardboard. (Aleene’s tacky glue is awesome.)
After they are dry, spread ink or paint evenly over them with your brayer, place a piece of paper over them and rub.
It will probably take 2-3 paint applications and test prints before you get a good print- the paint needs to saturate the cardboard enough so it doesn’t dry out too quickly. Just keep rolling paint on and printing until you get some good prints.
We made a few using different colors. It’s easy to mix up colors right on your palette by squirting out paint and rolling it back and forth with the brayer.
Important: Make sure whenever you peel the paper off you squeal in delight!
See all 5 Easy Art Projects:
Day 1: Folded Paper Marker Drawings
Day 2: Inky Chalk Pastel Drawings
Day 3: Spray Paint T-shirts
Day 4: Smiley Face Paintings
Day 5: Cardboard Prints
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Cardboard is a great idea for printmaking!!! You are so clever! It’s so much easier to cut out cardboard than to carve out linoleum or wood!!
Cardboard was really fun for printmaking- it’s a whole different project when you can cut your shapes out of something as opposed to carving them into something. Although I like both ways. 🙂
Cardboard is a great idea for printmaking!!! You are so clever! It’s so much easier to cut out cardboard than to carve out linoleum or wood!!
Just cut up some cardboard for my son’s painting/stamping project; thanks for the idea Jeanette! I also love the design of your blog; very clean and well laid out 🙂
Oh- how did they turn out!? I’m so excited you tried this. Did he have fun? And thank you a ton for the blog compliment. I sort of obsess over the design, and can’t stop tweaking things on it every few days.
LOVE this! Pinning to my cardboard board on Pinterest! I think it’s a great way to make fun wrapping paper!
I think we’ll absolutely have to make some wrapping paper with this idea! Now I need to go stalk your cardboard Pinterest board. It sounds like all sorts of fun!
Boy I really love this! Looks so easy and I love the result. I love how you can see the corrugations.
Yeah- that was sort of unexpected but it’s nice to get that extra texture in there. cardboard’s good stuff.
simply simple genius! never thought of such an easy stamp creation! thank you!
Thanks so much! The easy projects are the most fun…