Flowers Part 3: Layered Screen Printing

Develop your students’ understanding of tone, colour and printmaking with this engaging, step-by-step layered screen-printing project.

Flowers Part 3: Layered Screen Printing is a complete teacher and student resource designed to help learners transform photographic flower images into bold, multi-layered screen prints. Students explore how photographs can be simplified into tonal shapes, then develop their own designs through stencil cutting, colour planning, registration and repeated printing.

The resource combines clear guidance, visual demonstrations and differentiated flower stencil sheets, making it suitable for a range of abilities and classroom settings.

What’s included
Clear learning goals for knowledge, skills and understanding
Key screen-printing vocabulary and processes
Guidance on reading photographic images as tonal layers
Step-by-step stencil-cutting instructions
Screen-printing stages with visual support
Advice on colour planning and registration
13 differentiated layered flower stencil sheets
Student instructions and practical checklists
Reflection and self-evaluation prompts
Student outcome examples
Classroom safety guidance
Students will learn how to observe tonal areas, simplify photographic imagery, plan a limited colour palette and build an image through repeated registered layers. The project encourages experimentation while developing technical control, confidence and individual creative decision-making.

This resource is suitable for KS3, GCSE and A Level Art and Design, and can be used as a structured classroom project, a printmaking unit or a source of independent student work.

Help your students move from photographic observation to expressive layered prints through a practical, accessible and visually engaging screen-printing project.

This resource is Part 3 of a three-part flower project. Parts 1 and 2 include additional flower-based art and activities.