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Explore your world! Go for a walk outdoors and gather interesting objects for this classic craft activity. Look for items that have a lot of texture or an unusual shape. You also may want to do an "indoor" rubbing using objects you have in the house, like coins, paperclips, fabrics, baskets, combs, etc.

What You’ll Need

textured items; leaves, rocks, tree bark, shells, coins, etc.
construction paper
crayons
scissors - optional
glue - optional
markers - optional

Instructions

1. Walk around outdoors to collect various textured objects. These could include leaves, tree bark, rocks, shells, etc. For an "indoor" rubbing, choose objects like coins, fabric, combs, baskets, etc.

2. To make a rubbing, place a piece of construction paper on top of the object. Rub the paper gently with crayons (you may want to use the side of the crayon) until texture appears. The object and its texture will be "imprinted" on the paper. Experiment with overlapping rubbings over each other. This works very well with different shape leaves, rubbed in different colors overlapping each other. Have fun and be creative!

3. Another option is to draw on the construction paper with markers. Draw outlines only. Fill in the spaces by rubbing over various items.

4. Still another option is to make rubbings on paper. Cut out the rubbings and glue them onto another sheet of paper, making a collage.

Submitted by Leximom