"Nighttime Wonders"

This lesson we learned about different etching techniques and incorporated that into our scratchboard art. They started out this lesson by looking at the painting "A Starry Night" and we discussed elements that were in the foreground and background. We then got to create our own starry night and what we pictured at night. We started by coloring a piece of cardstock paper using at least four different colors to create whatever colorful design we wanted to for the background. We then taped our colorful design onto a working mat so we could paint over it with black paint. While this was drying we sketched out our nighttime picture, this picture had to include objects that were in the foreground and background. We were instructed on different etching techniques we got to practice those. Then we used white chalk to cover the back of the cardstock we drew the nighttime scene on. Then we put the black paint and traced the design so we could see it. It was all outlined in white chalk, then we took the etching tool and traced over the chalk to reveal the colorful background we colored previously. You could do an extension activity with this lesson by making a scene of a book they read or are independently reading and then write a short description about it and share it to the class.