I like to do a foam tile carving project with my Art 2 students each year. It’s an easy way to incorporate simple three-dimensional relief sculpture into a curriculum. The material carves easily with scratch art type tools and tongue depressors cut down to a flat edge.This year, we are doing contour names. It was fairly easy to create concentric contoured name lettering for each student. They transfer the image to the tile surface with graphite and begin on the outer edges to “step” the stripes one by one right up to the letters. We may paint or stain them when complete.