Scratch Art: Ms. Bruemmer and Mr. Kiefer

This lesson was taught on the subject of scratch art. We started out by learning some history and vocabulary of the concept. Then we were taught some different ways of scratching the paper. We practiced this on a scrap piece of paper. We were all provided with the tools and scratch paper. We also were given a random shape in which we had to incorporate that into the art we scratched. My shape was a lemon looking shape. I made the shape into the body of a turtle and then I added features to the body to enhance the picture. I used about 4 different techniques on scratching to creative the turtle. We finished off the picture by gluing it to a piece of paper to form a border.

Extension Activity: I would have my students write a short story about the piece they created. They could describe whats going on in their picture through words.