Experimenting with silhouettes

Try out three different ways of making silhouettes: casting shadows, using sun-printing and using a shadow theatre.

Teaching Outcomes:

• Try out three different ways of making silhouettes: casting shadows, using sun-printing and using a shadow theatre.
• To try out different ways of making silhouettes.

Children will:

• Demonstrate their understanding of how shadows are made.
• Describe how shadows are made.
• Use different techniques to create silhouettes.

• Preparing the Silhouette Stations
• Making Silhouettes
• Presentation: Silhouettes

• A large cardboard box / thick cardboard
• Scissors
• Tracing paper
• Bright lamps
• Black sugar paper
• Chalk
• Photosensitive paper
• Acetate sheets
• Cameras

There are no weblinks needed for this session.