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With Flying Colors Every year, Meadowbrook art teacher Caroline Kurman finds a new and exciting way to bridge the topic her students are learning about in the classroom with what they create in her art class. This year, while 2nd grade students were studying rainforest animals in the classroom, the art room provided them an extra opportunity to flex their creative muscles through the art of printmaking. The students created sketches of birds, which they transferred onto foam trays by tracing and creating an impression in the material. Once the foam was prepared, the students learned how to carefully roll the ink, and transfer their impressions to paper for the final result. The students’ prints lined the hallways surrounding the second grade classroom during their rainforest pop-up exhibit, where each child presented research on a different rainforest animal to faculty and other students.
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