India Study

 For school this last couple weeks, we've been studying India. There were some art projects suggested by our curriculum, but I decided to come up with my own. After a little research, it turns out I'm not the first one to come up with this idea, which is nice to see how others went about it. I wanted to have them draw the Taj Mahal, but have a little bit of an art lesson along with it. I thought it'd be a great lesson on symmetry  I found an easy (ish) drawing of the Taj Mahal, erased half of it in Photoshop, then printed it. (In hindsight, I could have just cut it with scissors after I printed it - haha).
 

First, I had them fold a blank piece of paper in half to make a crease, then open it back up, lining up the crease with center of the Taj Mahal printout. We put it on a lightbox so they could trace it (yay for my old scrapbooking supplies).

Then they retraced their paper with a charcoal pencil (yay for my hubby's old art supplies). I wanted them to do it the first time with a pencil so they could erase it if they needed to. We really could have just traced it the first time with the charcoal pencil.

We then folded the paper in half again with the drawing inside the fold and rubbed it onto the other half with the handle part of a pair of scissors. You have to rub REALLY hard to get it to transfer.

It made a pretty decent impression, but we had to go over the new half with a pencil just to darken it some.

 Even Jack (3 years old) participated. He did most of his tracing himself! 

Then, he decided to add a little extra to it. Lol!