Masked Rider Ryuki Cards

To begin this exercise, ask your students to perform a Google Search of Images to locate different shaped bats. Choose bat images that are clear. Make sure the shapes look like they will be easy and fun to draw. Here are some examples of appropriately shaped bat images to use as resource material: Bat Image from IStock Photos and Bat Image from Lovliest Village

When each student has saved a bat into a file on the computer ask them to

  • resize the image so that the shape takes up the largest area of an A4 page
  • print the image
  • cut out the shape

You can now teach them how to use this shape as a stencil. Ways to use the stencil could be

  • to sponge over it with dry paint leaving the shape blank and the background sponged as a dark colour
  • scrape across the bat shape with coloured pencils laid on their side so that the background is coloured with hatching and the inside of the bat is blank
  • print the bat shape on to heavier card and cut out the bat so that the shape can be traced around

Now that your stencils have been created the students can have fun. Refresh their memories about positive and negative shape. Ask the students to set the scene for Halloween by creating bat images to hang in the class room.