# Rubbing prints and care collages

**Foundation / Queensland Prep · Visual Arts · Term 2 Weeks 17–18 · Days 81–90 · v0.1.0-draft**

Make a broad raised cardboard master, try a dry crayon rubbing, and arrange pieces into your own picture. Choose a quiet desk display, an original postcard for a willing recipient, or a private work to keep. A learner may handle approved materials, direct an adult exactly, or make an unmade plan through words, sign, AAC or pointing. Each route preserves the child's art decisions; record who physically made each stage.

This is a new process after [Weeks 15–16 paper construction](../weeks-15-16/README.md): the raised master, marks that actually appear on rubbing paper, and a collage assembled from those papers are three different things. The crayon makes marks on the top paper; it is not ink transferred from the cardboard. Our source drawings are illustrations of possible setups, **not photographs or results of a rubbing test**. No result is promised.

## Start as a teacher

1. Read [materials and preparation](MATERIALS.md), then [ten 25-minute scripts](LESSONS.md). Prepare broad clean card, pre-fixed relief forms and a successful adult trial before offering rubbing. If the materials fail or the process is unsuitable, use the complete drawn-paper/planning route and record it honestly.
2. Offer the [thirty response routes and ten optional home bridges](LEARNER-CARDS.md). Keep the child in control of shape, position, selection, arrangement and intended meaning. Display, handling, cutting, touch and sharing are optional.
3. Use [twenty worked swaps](PRACTICE-SWAPS.md) for practice. Preserve the first fresh response on Days 85/90 before any worked check-day example. [Checks Y/Z](STUDENT-CHECKS.md) and the [separate teacher key](teacher/KEY-AND-NEXT.md) support a next step; they do not award a term grade.
4. Choose from [eight A4 pairs and their complete alternatives](print/TEXT-ALTERNATIVES.md), the [print contact sheet](print/previews/contact-sheet.png), or the [offline collage planner](digital/index.html) and [paper equivalent](digital/README.md). A screen arrangement is a plan, not a rubbing or assembled paper work.
5. Keep learner work and any actual place/audience record privately under school policy. Check local curriculum, materials, individual adjustments and consent before use.

## The fortnight

| Week | Child makes/chooses | Integrated connection and boundary |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 17 | Compose a master, try rubbing, choose actual marks, rearrange a small artwork. | [What a picture shows](../../../term-2/week-17-what-a-picture-shows.md): an impression can show some raised features; a missing mark does not establish that no feature exists. This VA process is distinct from the six-card Media Arts frame/data task. |
| 18 | Choose a feature and care idea, assemble care-themed art, choose keep/display/postcard, optionally invite a willing viewer. | [Care for a shared place](../../../term-2/week-18-care-for-a-shared-place.md): use our fiction or a dated approved observation. Art is not proof of a care action, outdoor movement or local Country/Place learning. |

A child may invent a creature, landscape or pattern in Week 17; no adult assigns universal meaning to their marks. Week 18's care theme does not make the artwork a functional safety sign or permission to alter a place. A real recipient can decline; choosing a private work remains valid art making.

## Evidence and rights

[Exact crosswalk](CURRICULUM-CROSSWALK.md), [source/rights](SOURCE-AND-RIGHTS.md), [source snapshot](source-snapshot.json), [fresh fetch receipts](source-fetch-receipts.json), [authentic encounter/local gate](AUTHENTIC-SOURCE-SLOT.md), [desk critique and exact QA](RUN-THROUGH.md), [read-only verifier](verify_pack.py), and [version/SHA manifest](manifest.json) describe the authored evidence. This is author desk checked development material, not independently educator reviewed, child tested or an accessibility pilot. Human review and actual use remain open.

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