New School Montessori elementary art teacher, Robin Hartmann, worked with students in 1st-3rd grade on what she calls “Mark Making.” Students began by rolling paint onto a Gelli plate and then used everyday objects like a comb or a leaf to leave a pattern on the Gelli plate’s surface.
Students could create a more complicated print by layering colors and/or various textures. Once they had the design looking the way they liked, they placed a sheet of white paper on top, pressed it down firmly and then peeled it off the plate so that it absorbed the resulting printed image.
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