Dream House Collographs
The second graders started out our discussion on architecture by reading If You Lived Here, Houses of the World. We talked about the similarities and differences between the different homes and where they can be found. We then became architects and drew up an elevation drawing, or plan, for our dream house. The next class, we used this plan to start creating a 3D collograph of our home! A collograph is created by taking assorted 3D materials and gluing them to a hard surface (we used cardboard). The "plate" is then inked and pressed to paper to make a print. Some of us decided to print our houses, and some of us left them as 3D collages!