Crayon Etching

Materials: 

• 5x5 White Cardstock
• 5x5 White Paper
• 6x6 Colored Paper for Mounting
• Pencils
• Newspaper/Painting Cloth
• Crayons
• Scratching Sticks
• Black Tempera Paint
• Large Paint Brushes
• Masking Tape

In this lesson we learned about crayon etching. For this lesson we had to choose either primary or secondary colors and create a pattern in the background. I used secondary colors and did a pattern of diagonal stripes. Then we painted over the pattern with black paint so that you couldn't see any of the secondary colors anymore. Next we created a drawing on a white sheet of paper and colored the back with pencil.  By coloring the back of the paper it made it so that when we drew over the top of our drawing onto the black paper the lead transferred to the painted sheet.  We then could etch out the paint and see the color underneath.  

Extension Activity
During a science lesson, I would have the students pick out a biome (tundra, rainforest, taiga, etc) and etch characteristics of the biome.