Bespoke Bodies Coloring Pages

Design Activity (Ages 5+)

Learners will explore texture and color while decorating the drawings of Derby and Grecia.

Coloring pages featuring Derby and Grecia decorated with various craft supplies and feathers.
Learners will…
  • Learn and use new vocabulary — texture & color.
  • Identify and describe various textures while noticing their similarities and differences.

  • Explore different textures in their surroundings.

  • Learn about Derby and Grecia from Bespoke Bodies: The Design and Craft of Prosthetics exhibition.
Share your coloring pages on social media with #DesignTogether and we’ll feature examples in our Design Together online gallery.

 

MATERIALS TO GATHER

  • Coloring Book Pages.

  • Art supplies such as paint, glue, crayons, or markers.

  • Textured objects around the home (at guardian’s discretion) to add texture and color to the provided coloring book pages.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Collect objects from around your home with various textures.

2. Gather art supplies found around your home such as glue, paint, crayons, markers, highlighters, etc.

3. Use the textured objects and the art supplies to add texture and color to the provided coloring book pages.

ACTIVITY QUESTIONS

What objects around your home have texture?

Can you describe the texture?

Does it remind you of anything you’ve felt before?

Cover of Bespoke Bodies coloring pages with Desgin Museum Everywhere "D" logo. Text: Bespoke Bodies: The Design and Craft of Prosthetics is an exhibition exploring prosthetic design's past, present, and future. Let's Explore Texture and Color.
Download a printable version of the entire activity.

Lesson Overview 

Meet Derby the Dog & Grecia the Toucan! Both use 3D-printed prostheses created by 3D Systems & are featured in our Bespoke Bodies exhibition. Collect textured items from your surroundings to color & decorate the drawings of Derby & Grecia.

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