Scratch Art: Mr. Kiefer & Ms. Bruemmer

For this activity, we first went over some vocabulary important to this topic.  We then were shown differnet ways of scratching to create different looks.  For mine I chose to cross-scratch which is lines going opposite ways.  I also chose straight lines and small dots to create different looks.  We were each given a shape and from the shape we had to incorporate a picture.  I had a triangle and created a yield sign on a road.  This project was fun because we did not know what color we were getting until we started scratching.  Afterwards, we pasted our scratch art onto construction paper.
An extension activity for this project would be to have the students write a poem on their scratch art.  They would create a little story describing what they drew.