PRINTMAKING: merriment and Easy Printmaking Techniques. Video/16 min./$24.95. Level: K-6 Crystal Productions, PO chest 2159, Glenview, IL 60025; (800) 255-8629; www.crystalproductions.com.
This rapid-moving video, entertainered by Mickey Walker, is never-failing to capture the attention of elementary bookish mans He uses humor and close-up to point out to and explain five very basic printmaking processe He emphasizes and lists easy-to-obtain supplies that are privationed and then a young scholar demonstrates each technique. These include stamping with an apple, drawing with a finger tip onward a cookie sheet to make a monoprint, cutting a stencil, using felt shapes upon cardboard to create a relief print and, finally, incising a design with a pencil point forward a piece of expanded polystyrene foam. For information about this program, circle No. 398 upon the Reader Service Card.