WATTS at home

Nature Prints Cardboard Printing

Materials • Paper for drawing • Cardboard from a brown cardboard box • Card for printing onto - recycled from cereal, pizza or tissue boxes is perfect! • Poster paint or watered down acrylic paint or similar • Scissors • Pencil • Paint brush - not too fine • Blue multi-purpose tack suitable for walls or similar • Optional: Craft Knife to cut out cardboard and a grown up to help 1. Draw a variety of very simple 2. Place the paper leaves onto leaf and flower shapes on to the cardboard and trace round paper, then cut them out. them. Cut these shapes out.

Tip: Do a range of sizes, the Tip: It can be easier to cut the leaves in the picture range from shapes out with a craft knife but 20cm for the biggest to 5cm for get a grown up to help and use the smallest. a cutting mat or similar to cut onto.

3. Paint the cardboard shapes Tip: Work fast - don’t let the QUICKLY with lots of poster paint dry before printing! If the paint or watered-down acrylic prints are a bit splodgy, don’t paint. Turn cardboard over and worry, it all adds to the lovely print straightaway onto recycled texture! card or thick paper. Try to print a few of each leaf or flower. 4. Leave to dry. Cut the leaves 5. Arrange the leaves and and flowers out. flowers on a wall or door using tiny bits of blue multi purpose Tip: It looks nice if you leave tack or similar. a thin white border round the edge. Stand back and admire your Nature Wall!

Share your creations with us on social media #wattsmakespace A huge thank you to Kate Chittenden for collaborating with us on this activity: @katechi.prints