The class was taught a lesson on the technique of marbling as seventh graders. We were each given a picture that we had to draw on white drawing paper in pencil then trace over with permanent marker. My drawing was the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. After we were finished drawing, we cut our our buildings and then filled a tin pan with a layer of shaving cream. Next, we added three adjacent colors from the color wheel to the shaving cream and used a tool to spread the color to make it look like marble. I chose blue, yellow, and green for my picture. We placed our pictures face down in the shaving cream and pressed firmly so the color stayed on the picture. We then scraped off the excess shaving cream but the paint stayed on the picture.
An extension activity for this could be to have the students collect and report information about the building they drew. This could be incorporated in both Social Studies and in Language Arts.
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