Marker and Coffee Filter Moon Silhouette Art Lesson
There are so many fun art projects to do with coffee filters! I created this lesson by combining several different ideas: Coffee Filter Moon, Perspective Pumpkin Landscape with Scarecrow & Silhouettes on painted coffee filters. Please checkout these great lessons!
My after school art class created this Marker and Coffee Filter Silhouette Art Project this week-it was a fun Fall Themed art project! The kids (& myself) had SO much fun making the moons!
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Here’s how we did our project:
Marker and Coffee Filter Silhouette Art Project
Supplies: Coffee Filters, copy paper, Crayola Black Markers, Spray bottle filled with water, Glue Sticks, 12×18″ Black Construction Paper, Oil Pastels, Sharpies
Moon Instructions:
1.Write your name with a Sharpie at the bottom of the coffee filter or on the copy paper.
2.Draw the craters of the moon by drawing various size circles all over the coffee filter, some going off the filter.
3.Put a piece of copy papy under the filter.
4.Spray the filter with water until the whole filter is wet.
5.Let dry. If you are in a hurry, you can dry with a hair dryer (as we did). It will significantly speed the drying time. If you choose to dry with a hair dryer, let the filter sit for about 3 minutes to allow the marker to “bleed”.
Landscape Instructions:
1. When the coffee filter is dry, cut off a small portion of the bottom. This is going to sit on the horizon line of the drawing. You could also choose to put the moon in a different location on the paper.
2.Glue the filter onto the paper with stick glue.
3. Use a white oil pastel to draw in the horizon line along the cut edge of the filter.
4. Use oil pastels to draw and color in the artwork.
5. Use a Sharpie to draw silhouettes on the moon.
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I LOVE the moon idea! It’s so simple! Why didn’t I ever think to do this? I’m going to do a project with it for my 3rd graders. If I write a blog post about it, I will definitely give you all the credit! Thanks for giving me inspiration!!!!
This a wonderful art project. Thank you. I did want to clarify the use of the ‘copy paper’? I can see the purpose for the coffee filter and the black construction paper for final artwork, but couldn’t understand the need to spray the filter paper on the copy paper. I think we know copy paper as ‘carbonless paper’. Could you help me understand? Thank you.
Hi Joy! This was such a fun project! The “copy paper” was just plain white paper & we used it to put under their coffee filter to easily keep track of who’s project it was & for it to fit on the drying rack. The coffee filters by them selves would not fit on our drying rack. The paper underneath also absorbed some of the extra water if the kids sprayed too much water on the filter. Hope this helped! Blessings-Michelle