My afterschool students have been practicing their lettering with acetate tracings, mounted to photo backgrounds. I had a range of kinder – 4th graders, and all were able to create and trace to their own ability.
1. I printed out this quote “Every Child is an Artist’ using Fink Gothic typeface, graying the lines to make the tracing more readable. Students placed a sheet of acetate over it and traced the letters with a black permanent marker.
2. Some new Brush Tip Sharpie Markers were used to fill in the letters. They are my new favorite tool as they feel like paintbrushes and fill in solid color so smoothly.
3. The acetate was taped to a color print of clouds.
1. I printed out this quote “Every Child is an Artist’ using Fink Gothic typeface, graying the lines to make the tracing more readable. Students placed a sheet of acetate over it and traced the letters with a black permanent marker.
2. Some new Brush Tip Sharpie Markers were used to fill in the letters. They are my new favorite tool as they feel like paintbrushes and fill in solid color so smoothly.
3. The acetate was taped to a color print of clouds.

2 comments:
Neat! We have buttefly cocoons in our class right now and I think this project would work well if the students did colourful butterflies on the acetate and then attached it to the cloud sheet, or even to a flower background. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hey, that's a great idea. I can picture that looking really pretty. Why not take advantage of the fact the the art is transparent? Maybe you just inspired someone else...
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