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Color Scheme Acrylic Painting Self-Assessment
Being a good artist means being able to critique your own work. Here young painters will take a short quiz on color schemes in acrylic painting and then reflect on their use of color in a recently completed piece. A great worksheet for...
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Secrets of Painting
Learners explore colors and shapes. In this art concepts instructional activity, students discuss shapes, lines, and color while creating a variety of abstract designs. The instructions for several art activities are provided. Basic art...
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Creative Color Wheel
For this color theory worksheet, students draw a large circle on a piece of paper and make six shapes evenly spaced around the circle. Students color the wheel according to the directions. This worksheet is geared toward adults who will...
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Spicy Hot Colors
Second graders investigate the book Spicy Hot Colors. In this colors lesson, 2nd graders experiment mixing paint and creating different colors. Students make text to world connections and record their responses and draw pictures.
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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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Design Motifs and Eggs
Students create an Easter egg that displays at least one secondary color, one primary color, and one motif of design.
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Warm and Cool: Sun
First graders think about the sunshine colors and brainstorm the different colors found in the sunshine and identify warm colors and cool colors.  They create a painting of a sun usin only warm colors using tempera paint and basic...
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Thanksgiving Turkey Napkins
Students explore painting.  In this Thanksgiving art lesson, students trace their hands on 4 cloth napkins sent from home and use fabric paint to decorate them as hand print turkeys.
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Dreaming with Marc Chagall
Students scrutinize the early twentieth-century artists who dealt with expressionism and abstraction, especially Marc Chagall. This four lesson unit examines the life and work of Chagall and supports the student creation of works similar...
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Color Review Bingo
Students identify, describe and review the definitions of various key terms from the attached word list.  Then, they draw a bingo card--5 columns across and 5 rows down and fill in their Bingo sheets with the terms listed.  Finally,...
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Fishy Color Words
In this fishy color words worksheet, students color six fish six different colors. Students color each fish the color written underneath each fish picture: purple. blue, yellow, red, orange, and green.
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Color My World
Second graders experiment mixing primary colors to form other colors using frosting.
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Fine Arts
Art Teachers should love this presentation which highlights some of the basic elements of pieces of visual art. Purposes for creating art, art processes, art media, and art subject matter are all topics presented in a colorful way. A lot...
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Horse of a Different Color: An Introduction to Color in the Visual Arts
Young scholars identify ways in which the artist uses color to draw the view's attention to points within the composition and creates a sense of depth. They discuss the effect of color on the tone and mood of an artwork.
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Let There Be Light
Students explore the relationship between light and color. They explore the NineColours computer program, blend colors, create a slideshow of hues of colors, and conduct an experiment using a flashlight and colored cellophane.
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Clothing Color Wheel
Students are introduced to the primary, secondary and tertiary colors.  Individually, they are to create a color wheel with all three levels of colors in a creative way.  To end the lesson plan, they present their wheel to the class and...
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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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Easter Egg Eggstravaganza
Students identify functions and proper use of the computer.  They identify secondary colors by mixing primary colors.  Students reinforce listening, speaking and following directions by playing a game.  They identify the color gold.
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Visual Art: Primary Colors
First graders identify primary colors and consider their use in works by Henri Mattise and Mary Cassatt. They conduct an experiment with food coloring and then draw a color tree differentiating between warm and cool colors.
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Ancient Aztecs
Is it a calendar? A religious symbol? A political statement? One thing for certain is that Aztec sun stone designs remain an important symbol in Mexican cultural art. Young artists craft their own Aztec Sun design incorporating ideas...
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Warm & Cool Coloring
Students  identify, explain and use the basic elements of design.  They explore the concept of warm and cool colors in as simple and fun manner.  They label one coloring book picture warm and the other picture cool.  They color the...
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Color
Students study the elements of color in paint and light. In this color science lesson, students discuss colors in their world, white light, and rainbows. Students mix three primary paint colors to make various secondary colors. Students...
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too #3
Students explore the meaning of unique and special. They study about why a birthday is significant. They investigate how families celebrate birthdays in different ways and they reflect on why growing up is a good thing.
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Spinners of Color
Students review primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. They use a worksheet to select the combination of colors they want to try on the spinners. They predict the outcome of the spinning colors.