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Rain Orchestra
First graders mix secondary colors from primary colors and simulate a rainstorm by using body percussion.
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Color Theory Unit: Op Art Complementary Color Designs
Students learn skills in mixing and applying paint while enhancing understanding of complementary colors.
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Sunset Silhouette (primary colours)
Young scholars draw and paint the sunset, learning about the primary colors while painting and mixing.
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What You See Is What You Get
Students explore light and colors. They see how white light is made up of various colors. They need to have some background knowledge about prisms, light wave lengths, and behavior of light, primary and secondary colors, and ratios.
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Warm/Cool Leaves
Students examine the difference between warm and cool colors. They discuss the basic color wheel, reviewing primary, secondary and complimentary colors. An activity allows students to discover how to mix the warm and cool colors.
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3-in-1 Color Tool
Students use a new tool to help them be more creative in designing their quilts. After watching a demonstration, they design their own color combinations and select the fabric for their quilt. They reiew the color wheel and warm and...
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Clay Portrait Project
Students discuss facial proportions and mix colors similar to flesh tones. In this art lesson plan, students draw and paint a portrait and then translate this image into a 3D form using clay.
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Mixing Up Magic
Students explore the relationship between art and science through experimenting with color, design and recycled materials and creating their own art work.
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No-Blender Pulp Painting
Like finger painting, this project is very tactile. Kids tear tissue paper into small pieces, add water, and mix up a pulp that can be pressed onto a canvas to create a colorful, textured painting.
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Shades of Color - Cross Out Puzzle Six
English language learners follow the directions to cross out words as they place them into specific categories. For example, they list egg yolk and sunflower under "shades of yellow." Note: some of these are very difficult! Will your...
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Find the Shapes in a Picture
Use coloring to remind young learners that geometry is all around them! A simple image of a house, sun, and tree becomes the format for several basic shapes. The instructions direct scholars to trace and color each shape using a...
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Understanding Visual Fractions
Using fractions as their artistic guide, learners color in parts of five shape images. Each image is segmented based on the denominator, so scholars simply need to apply the numerator to know how much to color. None of these are mixed...
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People Colors
Young scholars are introduced to the concept of multiculturalism. They explore "colors" of people in a book The Colors of Us by Karen Katz. Students experience the ingredients and materials for Rainbow Stew.
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Monochromatic Self Portraits
Students use a photograph of themselves and the photoshop computer program to create a posterized portrait showing mood and feelings through color. Students then paint their portrait using a mix of warm and cool colors.
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Colors/colors
Students make a prediction/hypothesis based on what you currently know about "mixed messages".
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Analagous Colors
Students encounter how to mix analogous colors and use them in cane patterns. They select two colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. Students then knead the pieces for a couple of minutes and then roll each color into a...
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Shapes and Colors: Squares, Triangles, Circles, Rectangles and Ovals
In this shape and color activity, students trace squares, coloring them blue, triangles, coloring them green, circles, coloring them red, rectangles, coloring them orange, and ovals, coloring them purple.
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Expressive Mixed Media Collage
Students create a collage that expresses color, symbols, and collage techniques. They view and discuss paintings, create a collage book that communicates their interests, and write a question about each collage in the class.
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Colors of My Skin
Young scholars cooperate in small groups to prepare paint colors that match their own skin colors. They share a variety of paint colors which they mix individually to create a shade that matches their own skin tone. They discuss the...
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Mix and Match
In this identifying colors worksheet, students follow directions and color 3 oranges orange, 3 shamrocks green, and 3 grapes purple.
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Insoluble Paintings
Insolubility and density? Yup, it's art class, of course. To create insoluble paintings that continually move and change, kids mix water-based paint with mineral oil and seal the mixture in laminating pouches.
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The Color of Light
Students explore the components of light as a combination of several colors. The focus of the lesson reveals that objects are viewed in a certain color because that color is reflected off of the object.
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Shapes and Colors: Rectangles, Squares, Triangles, Ovals and Circles
In this shape and color worksheet, students trace rectangles, coloring them brown, squares, coloring them grey, triangles, coloring them green, ovals, coloring them neon green, and circles, coloring them red.
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Shape and Colors: Rectangles, Squares, Triangles, Ovals and Circles
In this shape and color activity, students trace rectangles, coloring them brown, squares, coloring them grey, triangles, coloring them purple, ovals, coloring them neon green, and circles, coloring them blue. Students also color a...