Newspaper blackout poetry

Students create poems by blacking out words on old newspaper pages.

Steps

1. Everyone gets a newspaper page.
2. They circle words with a pencil that form a short poem.
3. They paint over the rest of the text with a marker or decorate it with patterns.
4. We hang the poems on an exhibition.

Tip: This technique is called 'blackout poetry'; show an example before they begin.

Materials needed

• Black markers (1 per student)