The following lesson plan comes from Ellerslie School. Explore and describe tapa cloth to create a tapa cloth using shells. Children choose 3 or 4 shells and copy designs on the grid.
Children copy designs on brown paper using black vivid, colouring in with black vivid or indian ink.
Carefully screw up brown paper, working on it until it feels like fabric. Roll it up in water-based printing ink and print on top of your tapa. More Art Activities Cover Designs Look at the word art on the cover of Cyclone Christmas . Show the children other books from the Sunshine Paperbacks series and discuss what features make the covers attractive. Painting the Sky Children look at the photographs from the gallery .