• tempera paint
• paintbrush
• pencil or small stick
• flat pan or cookie sheet
• white drawing paper
• paper towels

1. Paint a picture directly on a flat pan or cookie sheet. Use many different colors. Work fast so the paint does not get too dry.
2. Scratch lines into the painting with a pencil or small stick, similar to finger-painting.
3. Next, place a sheet of white paper on top of the wet painting and pat it gently with one hand. Try not to wiggle the paper. Lift the paper up and see the painted picture transferred onto the paper. This is a monoprint! (Mono means "one", and each painting makes one print.)
4. To make another monoprint, wipe the pan clean with paper towels and repeat steps 1 through 3.

The great Impressionist painter, Mary Cassatt, lived about 100 years ago. She grew up in America, but like many artists of her time, moved to Paris to live and work as an artist. She decided to be a professional artist when she was very young, even though her family felt it was not a proper job for a young woman. But Cassatt believed in herself, studied hard, and went on to become a famous artist.

The Impressionists were a group of artists who believed in painting pictures very different from the usual artwork of the time. They painted people in everyday scenes rather than posed portraits. Cassatt is famous for her painting of mothers and their children. Some of her pictures are monoprints, made by painting a picture on a flat tray, then pressing paper on top of the wet paint to make a print of the image. Young artists create monoprints with an old cookie sheet, tempera paints, and paper.