Ukiyo-e Prints

This has to be one of my favorite projects. 3rd grade students studied Hokosai's "36 Views of Mount Fuji" to make ukiyo-e prints. These traditional Japanese prints were made by painted ink on carved woodblocks. Paper was placed on the wet ink and  the ink was transferred from the block to paper by rubbing on the back of the paper. We used styrofoam blocks instead of wood and tempera paint instead of ukiyo-e ink, but we still hand rubbed the paper to get something that looked kind of like a ukiyo-e print. I was very impressed with what my students accomplished!