"We need to use light pushes."

Exploring imprinting with a variety of materials by Ms. Sowa

Throughout the past couple of months, we have explored creating different imprints in a variety of materials.  What we have discovered was how the same object could make different imprints.  We also have learned that the appearance of the imprint visually looks the same in different materials, but can feel different.  

Throughout the semester we explored making imprints in play dough, clay, and cloud dough.  Each of these materials involved using different techniques in order to make an imprint.  To make an imprint in the clay we had to push harder and to make an imprint in the cloud dough we had to use “light pushes.”

 The play dough was our original exploration in September and I brought back the play dough this past Wednesday to see what other things we could learn.  We used the prongs of the comb to poke and to make thin lines.  In our original exploration of the play dough, we spent, much time running the comb prongs back and forth which caused the play dough to look more frayed.   What we discovered was even more ways to create different imprints!