# Press, lift, make a playful picture

**Foundation / Queensland Prep · Visual Arts · Term 3 Weeks 23–24 · Days 111–120 · ten 25-minute sessions · 0.1.0-draft · 30 September 2026**

A broad mark can become an invented cloud, a funny meeting, a tiny world or just a shape you enjoy. Press and lift with an already familiar, locally approved stamp/paint setup if available; draw or direct instead whenever wanted. Children choose where a mark goes, whether it turns, how much open space remains, what their art means and when it is finished. **One mark plus empty space can be a complete artwork.** There is no neat repeated pattern to copy.

This new wet surface process follows [soft forms/tabletop scenes](../weeks-21-22/README.md). [Integrated Week 23](../../../term-3/week-23-a-story-we-can-place-in-time.md) considers sourced event stories: our invented gathering of marks needs no family celebration, calendar or cultural motif. [Week 24](../../../term-3/week-24-feelings-and-help.md) considers feelings/help: our abstract art meaning is child-owned; colour, spacing or silence never diagnoses a real emotion. Art is not an emergency message or safety sign.

## Start with making

1. [Adult setup, material status and full access routes](MATERIALS.md). Only an existing familiar stamp and paint/pad **already approved locally** for these learners. No recipe, carving, improvised object stamp, food, body print or required purchase.
2. [Ten daily scripts](LESSONS.md), [30 same-goal routes / ten optional home bridges](LEARNER-CARDS.md), [20 worked choice domains](PRACTICE-SWAPS.md). Adults read one short prompt; the artwork, not paperwork, is the main outcome.
3. [Eight original illustrated A4 pairs / exact alternatives](print/TEXT-ALTERNATIVES.md). Print only useful pages. The source art is actual computer graphics representing unmade print proposals. Searchable PDFs are not tagged; linear text is the reading copy.
4. Optional small [offline mark/space planner](digital/README.md) helps choose one arrangement before making. No device required.
5. Held [fresh checks AE/AF](STUDENT-CHECKS.md), [separate teacher key](teacher/KEY-AND-NEXT.md). Capture first response before models. Components may continue later without timed completion.

Private keeping, a quiet locally approved display, or giving to an actually willing recipient are child choices. No statement card, public show, photo, upload, personal disclosure or compulsory messy contact is needed. Actual drawing, actual child-directed/adult-made impression and unmade print plan are recorded honestly.

[Exact curriculum crosswalk](CURRICULUM-CROSSWALK.md) · [supplied work identity/purpose](SUPPLIED-WORK.md) · [source/rights](SOURCE-AND-RIGHTS.md) · [actual encounter/audience gate](AUTHENTIC-SOURCE-SLOT.md) · [pins](source-snapshot.json) · [receipts](source-fetch-receipts.json) · [desk critique](RUN-THROUGH.md) · [hash manifest](manifest.json).

From this pack, `python3 verify_pack.py` and `node digital/qa_browser.cjs` are read-only audits after the documented dependencies are installed. They validate source/evidence/print/browser behaviour, not child learning, product suitability or classroom enjoyment. Local educator/learner/family safety/access review and actual making/source/audience evidence remain human gates.

Original educational text/vector art © 2026 NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd, SubjectNest, CC BY 4.0; implementation Apache 2.0; font, curriculum, museum and community-held knowledge retain their own rights.

## Reproduction setup for adult review

Use Python 3 with `pypdf` (author version 5.1.0), DejaVu Sans fonts, librsvg `rsvg-convert`, Poppler `pdftotext` and Node installed locally. Browser audit additionally needs Playwright and its Chromium; configure that runtime using its own installation directions. From this pack, `python3 print/generate_print.py` explicitly regenerates the eight SVG/PDF pairs. `python3 verify_pack.py` defaults to read-only and rebuilds temporary copies; `--write-manifest` explicitly refreshes the manifest after authoring/QA. `node digital/qa_browser.cjs` defaults to read-only; `--capture` explicitly updates previews. No private workstation path is needed.