Marble Painting

This project introduced marbling. The students were given a famous monument and were instructed to draw it on a piece of paper. The paper was then covered in shaving cream with whatever color of paint splattered on top of the shaving cream.  The shaving cream is then scraped off and a marble painting appeared. With normal marble painting, the students would use water and paint but for this age group, shaving cream works great. A new vocabulary word I learned was marble. I did not have any prior knowledge of this technique and think it is very neat! An extension activity for this project includes incorporating geography by having the students place their famous monument on the correct area on a map. The students would research their monument and present it to the class. This activity incorporates drawing, a painting technique, history, and geography.