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Thinking with a Line

By Cathy Weisman Topal

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Inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach and by the work of Friedrich Froebel, these activities offer strategies for teaching basic printmaking. Teachers and students of all ages delight in discovering that with simple tools like cardboard and paint they can print a multitude of linear structures from shapes and alphabets, to patterns and designs, buildings and architecture, machines, and more… This method provides an effective and developmentally appropriate approach for increasing visual learning, motor skills, language development, and critical thinking using the basic art element, line. Grades PreK–6