Texture is how something feels when you touch it. Smooth, rough, bumpy, soft, scratchy, and squishy are all textures. Artists use different textures to make art more interesting. You can feel textures with your fingers and even make rubbings to capture them on paper!
Create a texture walk where children touch different surfaces (tree bark, fabric, sandpaper, cotton balls). Make texture rubbings by placing paper over textured surfaces and rubbing with a crayon. Create texture collages using materials like sandpaper, fabric scraps, cotton, and foil. Play blindfold guessing games with textures.
Texture is a word that describes how something feels when you touch it. Run your fingers over a tree trunk. That is a rough, bumpy texture. Pet a cat. That is a soft, furry texture. Touch a window. That is a smooth, hard texture. The world is full of textures!
Artists think about texture a lot. When an artist makes a painting, they might use thick, blobby paint to make a bumpy texture you can feel, or they might spread the paint very smoothly. When you make a collage, you might glue down sandpaper (rough), cotton balls (fluffy), and tinfoil (smooth and crinkly). Mixing textures makes art interesting to touch, not just look at.
You can capture textures on paper with a crayon rubbing. Put a piece of paper on top of something textured, like a leaf, a coin, or a piece of sandpaper. Rub the side of a crayon back and forth across the paper. The texture appears on the paper like magic! This is a wonderful way to collect textures from the world around you.
Try a texture hunt. Walk around your home or classroom and touch as many different surfaces as you can. Say the texture words out loud: smooth, rough, bumpy, soft, scratchy, squishy, hard, slippery. The more texture words you know, the better you can describe your art and the world around you. Texture is one of an artist's favorite tools!
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