The Making of Colors

Is there anything more fun for kids than mixing together…well, anything? Dirt and water? Cookie dough? Cake batter? Rocks and sand? Paint?

Honestly, the dirtier the better right? For them at least. Not me.

I used to cringe anytime we’d go to the creek and Liam would want to mix dirt and creek water. It’s NEVER a clean activity. And then throw in some rocks and bugs and he’d have some fine mixtures going on.

Mixing is fun, plain and simple. I much prefer the results of a good cookie dough mixture but that’s just me!

What We Did

We had friends come over for our art class again this week which makes it so much more fun.

We read the simplest book about color mixing…yet so cute. There’s not much cuter than a little rabbit hopping into bowls of paint is there?

Afterwards, we did some color experimenting…

…and then got to work painting. I found these cute Mickey Mouse paint plates at Dollar Tree. Six for a dollar! And it was perfect for them to experiment with their color mixing and the color wheel.

There’s just something about watching children really concentrate on a project. Both the older ones were very intentional about keeping their paint within the lines and making sure that they mixed each secondary color well.

What We Learned

By then end of the lesson, they were able to:

• identify primary and secondary colors
• create secondary colors
• create their own work of art only given three primary colors

They also now has a good understanding of many new vocabulary words such as:

• primary colors
• secondary colors

My entire lesson plan, lesson Read Aloud and printables can be purchased here.

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Other Great Resources

Here are some great resources that are not included in my Lesson Plan but that I felt were still worth mentioning. And I’m sure I’ll come back to these when we have space time throughout our week.

Videos

Books

See You Soon!

Next week we’re going to learn all about a famous artist who used lots of colors!!!! His paintings are known around the world….and we’ll create our very own just like him.

COME JOIN!!

The Whole Year

Check out all about the ENTIRE YEAR of art lessons here.

And don’t forget about music! Find out all about those year long plans here!