1 ✨ Spark
If you dip a leaf in paint and press it on paper, what will you see?
Think about this for a moment before you start.
2 🧊 3D Explore
Turn the scene, tap the objects and answer. Easy, Medium and Challenge are the three checkpoints.
🎨 Patterns and printmaking
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3 📖 Explain
Printmaking means pressing a painted object (a stamp) onto paper or cloth to copy its shape. Leaves, cut vegetables like okra (bhindi) and potato, and even fingers make good stamps.
Repeating a print in a regular way makes a pattern, as in block-printed cloth from Rajasthan. Use a little paint, press firmly and lift straight up.
In Sanganer and Bagru in Rajasthan, artisans print cloth by hand with carved wooden blocks, repeating the same design again and again.
✗ More paint makes a better print.
✓ Too much paint smudges the print; a thin, even coat shows the details clearly.
📒 Glossary
- a copy made by pressing
- stamp
- an object used to make a print
- block printing
- printing cloth with carved wooden blocks
4 ✍️ Practice
Play Medium and Challenge in the 3D scene. The bars show how many you got right the first time.
My mastery (right first time / played)
- Easy0 / 0
- Medium0 / 0
- Challenge0 / 0
5 🏡 Real-life task
Try this at home or at school, then check the suggested answer.
Scenario You want to make the same flower design on ten greeting cards quickly. How can printmaking help?
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Make one flower stamp (for example, half a cut bhindi or a carved potato), dip it in paint and press it on every card.
Cut a bhindi, a potato and a lemon in half. Print them on paper in a repeating pattern, like a border for a greeting card.
6 💭 Reflect
Think, then answer in your own words. Your notes stay on this device.
Observation In the 3D scene, compare the print and the stamps. How did you know which stamp made the print?
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By matching the shape and lines: a star-shaped print comes from cut okra, a leaf print shows the leaf's veins.
Explain / create Plan a printed border pattern with a friend: choose two stamps and a repeating order.
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For example: leaf, okra, leaf, okra… in green and yellow, pressed in a straight line along the paper edge.