Lindsey’s Countertop Crafts

Recent painting I made for my classroom

3D Home Design. Project for High Schoolers

Hand-Sewn Quilts! Ages: High School Students.

Hand-Sewn Pillow Pets! High School.

Value Ice Cream Cones. Middle School & Up. Materials: black cardstock and white pencil or chalk.

Perspective Ducks. Medium: Chalk. Ages: Middle School & Up.

Japanese Fish Prints. Or “Fish in Bags”. Materials: rubber fish, tissue paper, modge podge, sponge brushes, glitter, acrylic paint, construction paper. Ages: 7+ (First Grade).

Sports Gelli Prints. Middle School & Up. Materials: gelli printing plates, acrylic paint, brayers, spatulas, paper towels, copy paper, exacto knives, self healing exacto mats, plexiglass or glass surfaces.

Pre-History: Cave Paintings of Altamira & Lascaux. Ages 6+ (Kindergarten). Materials: brown construction paper, black white yellow red and orange chalk

Optional: teacher can put inverted masking tape loops on the underside of the tables if you want students to work upside down just like the cave people would.

Step 1: carefully tear only the most outer edges off your brown sheet of paper.
2. Crumble your paper, open it up, crumble, open, repeat several times until paper is very crinkly.
3. Stick paper to a gathering of tape loops under the table (optional).
4. Draw your cave scene using images of inspiration.
5. Outline all the animal bodies in black.
6. Put paper back on top of table. With another paper underneath to catch stray marks and keep the table clean, rub black chalk along the edges for a smoked border look.

Ancient Civilizations of the Americas: Aztec Seals. High School. Materials: colored pencil, pen, and sharpie.

Inuit Clothing Designs. High school.

Ancient Egyptian Cats drawn by my third graders on real papyrus paper with colored pencils, markers, and sharpies.