Under Water World Scratch Art

One project that we created was scratch art that is black paper with a color coating underneath the black. We started the lesson by learning about the different techniques to create lines and then we were shown examples of different scratch art. To practice on our own we were given little bookmark shaped scratch paper to practice creating different lines and the thickness of lines. We used these lines by using a somewhat sharp wooden tool to scratch off the black paper.
Our lesson was an underwater theme and as a class we discussed different animals we would see underwater. When we started on the project, we were told to choose an animal that they had laid out and thats the animal we were make on our scratch art. I chose to draw a seahorse to create my picture and I made coral and bubbles and lines to symbolize water.
We first started to draw our picture on another half sheet of paper that we folded in half and would be used as our tracing sheet. We then put the black scratch art sheet in between the white folded sheet and traced the outline of the image with the wooden tool. Once the image was traced on the paper, we went back over onto the actual black scratch art to make each line thicker and more noticeable.

An extension activity that can go along with the underwater theme is a science lesson. Students would make different biomes and explain different habitats. They would tell what kind of animals lived there and what are major important details about the biome. This will allow them to learn more about different types of biomes.

Here is my example of scratch art, it is a seahorse.