Shape Rubbings
Place shape cut-outs underneath a sheet of paper and rub across the paper with crayons or chalk pastels. Watch as the shape outlines appear as you rub!
Materials Needed
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Safety Guidelines
- Always let your child use child-safe scissors.
Steps
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1. | Find paper with interesting textures such as sand paper or corrugated paper. Draw shapes at the back of the paper. Make circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, ovals, hearts, stars, diamonds or other shapes you can think of. |
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2. | Cut out the shapes. | |
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3. | Put masking tape at the back of each shape. | |
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4. | Stick the shapes onto a piece of Styrofoam board or on a plastic placemat. Arrange the shapes so that they cover an area approximately the same as the paper size you plan to use for the rubbings. | |
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5. | Any thin piece of paper can be used. Lay your paper on top of the shapes. | |
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6. | Use the side of a crayon or chalk pastel to rub across the paper. Watch each shape magically appear as you rub. Notice how the texture of the shape cut outs add an interesting effect on your rubbings. |
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More Ideas
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Try moving your paper around for each shape rubbing to obtain overlapping shapes. | |
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This activity can be very versatile. You can make number rubbings for a numbers theme lesson. Take note that you can use more than one color for each shape rubbing. | |
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Make letter rubbings as an alphabet learning activity. Arrange the letters randomly or spell words with them. |
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Earth Friendly Tips 
- Reuse the shape cut-outs for a similar art activity or use them for other craft projects such as this Toothbrush Painting craft.
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