Lesson # 4 - Color Mixing

Lesson # 4 - Color Mixing

Objective: The student will mix red, yellow, and blue to create secondary colors and form a color wheel.

Focus Element - color

Standards

(AP) Artistic Perception- Identify the elements of visual art.(1.2, 1.3)

(AV) Aesthetic Valuing- Analyze one's own and others' artwork. (4.2, 4.3)

Open Court Themes

Pictures Tell Stories Friendship

Stick To It School

Shadows

Concept

Two colors can be mixed together to make a new color. A color wheel shows which colors can be mixed.

Resources

This lesson is taken directly from the PORTFOLIOS Teacher’s Guide*.

ADVENTURES IN ART: pp. 60&61

ART CONNECTIONS: pp. 82 & 83

ART EXPRESS: pg. 22

*PORTFOLIOS: pp. 26 - 29

Art example:

Yellow Cow, Franz Marc

Vocabulary words

color wheel

primary colors- red, blue, yellow

secondary colors- green, orange, purple

Materials

·  red, yellow, and blue tempera

·  fingerpaint paper

·  white butcher paper (or chart paper)

·  color wheel poster

·  paper towels

Kindergarten, lesson #4

DIRECTED LESSON

Get Set

Show the color wheel poster. Identify the primary and secondary colors. Identify color names in Yellow Cow and in the classroom environment.

Focus

Ask children to predict what will happen when two colors are mixed together.

Develop

1.  Give each child red, blue, and yellow finger paint, placed in a triangle on finger paint paper.

2.  Choose a volunteer child whose paper can be seen by the rest of the class. Standing behind the volunteer child, guide two of his/her fingers to scoop some yellow paint and deposit it on the paper in between the red and yellow. Scoop some red paint. Ask children to predict what color will be made when the two are mixed together. Guide the child to mix the paint, using two fingers. Ask the class to describe what happened when the colors were mixed. Clean fingers on a wet paper towel.

3.  Ask the children to mix the same two colors together on their papers and then wipe their fingers. Repeat this process for the other secondary colors.

4.  When the children have all colors mixed, show them how to make a design with their colors, drawing into the paint with their fingers.

5.  While they are occupied with this, make a class color wheel or rainbow with fingerprints for every color on butcher paper or chart paper, using different children for each color.

Evaluation

Ask students what colors should be mixed for orange, green, and purple. Check for understanding: Can we mix two colors to make red, blue, or yellow?

Summary

Artists can mix many new colors to make their artwork.

Journal writing prompt

Draw a color wheel in your journal. Label the colors. Which color is your favorite? Why?

Extensions

·  MATH - Make a class graph of your favorite colors.

·  READING - Read Little Blue And Little Yellow by Leo Lionni.

·  VA - Make a color wheel on a paper plate. Mix secondary colors.

·  VA - Play a color bingo game.

·  VA - Learning center activity: Students arrange 6 colored paper circles, red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and purple, in order of the color wheel.

Assessment

(AP) I can explain how to mix secondary colors.

(AV) I can talk about a work of art.