This was an easy, fun art activity. We watched a slideshow I put together with various examples of sun prints, then talked about the process. There are a lot of neat examples to show the students. I bought my sunprint paper on Amazon.
Students gathered materials from the Goldsworthy project (we did both the same day) or supplies from the classroom (scissors, for example, make a really neat silhouette). Students exposed the paper with the objects on top for about 5 minutes, until the paper was white (follow instructions that come with paper). Then they immersed the paper in a bucket of water in the classroom, then laid the paper on drying racks. The teacher placed the dried sunprint paper under a big stack of mathbooks to flatten. You could also iron the dry paper on a no-steam setting. As the paper dried, the dark blue was revealed. The students loved this and we could have experimented with this process all day. This lesson easily combines with a discussion of photography (exposure, aperture), and science.
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