Primary colors art lesson

This homeschool art lesson teaches you about Dutch modern abstract artist Piet Mondrian and includes a simple kids art activity that's perfect for all ages!

First students identified and labeled a 12 part color wheel using crayons. Then they painted the primary, secondary and intermediate colors onto a larger color wheel paper which they divided into 12 equal parts using a ruler. After their papers dried, students cut out a large white circle for the sclera, their color wheel for the iris, and a small black circle for the pupil. Then “skin” was glued on top with the addition of black eyelashes.

Last week's second grade art lesson was all about shape. Facts about shapes: they are flat, they are made from "closed" lines, some have names (triangle, square, circle). Shapes that have names are called geometric. Shapes that don't have names are called organic or irregular shapes. Then I introduced the kids to Piet Mondrian, Dutch

This has been my go to beginning of the year lesson with first graders. I first saw the idea on pinterest but have tweaked it a few times based on classroom experience. It took me a few tries to get...

Explore shapes, lines, colors, balance and composition with kids in this collage art lesson inspired by Mondrian. Perfect for elementary-aged kids!

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This has been my new favorite Kinder project this year... one I pulled out of a hat 10 minutes before they were coming. You know... one of those days you're sure they were not finished with the last project, but.. the were! I fast... pre-drew a curve at the bottom of the papers for the sun and made it work! First day, we talked a lot about primary colors and the color wheel. I showed them the three Lichtenstein paintings below and we outlined the sun in blue and painted the rays. That was…

1 page simple art sub plan to teach about artist Piet Mondrian and primary colors. Includes step-by-step and finished example. Perfect for Pre-K, Kindergarten and first grade

First grade, tempera and collage, about 2 sessions Painting the primary stripes which will become the popsicles Next we mixed the primaries to make secondaries and created line patterns on our backg

This is a fun project that I got from my cooperating teacher when I was student teaching last year. She did it with her emotionally handicapped class, which consists of students in several grade levels. I chose to do it with 1st grade, but I probably would have gotten better results with 2nd grade. Even my 5th and 6th graders thought the examples looked really cool when they saw them in my classroom! This lesson can be used to teach a variety of principles of art, elements of art, or color…