Primary color art lesson

Kids Abstract Art Lesson - Piet Mondrian

I've had a super productive evening of photo editing and yearbook, so I'm going to do a post about a lesson I started today with kindergarten and first grade. I don't always double up on my lessons, and I actually prefer not to, that way I can re-use lessons next year if I'm in a pinch. The kids had a great time today, which always makes my heart feel good :). Kids were singing, dancing, and getting excited about learning! As the title of the post suggests, the lesson was teaching the…

Kindergarten: Primary Color Cup Prints | Lessons from the K-12 Art Room

During every kindergarten class today we heard repeated choruses of "Ooooo" and "Ahhhh" as students dropped primary colored liquid watercolors on wet board and watched it move together creating new colors. We started the lesson with a quick talk about primary colors and a really short video ( a minute and a half) from Sesame Street on Primary Colors. My inspiration for this lesson was a first grade project I saw on Pinterest here that focused on Mondrian. I changed the focus but went for a…

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...

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I am linking up with Fourth Grade Frolics for Monday Made It. This year I am going with a bird theme in my room. It just kind of happened. I already had a great picture I bought last year at my school's art auction. Then I happened upon these, and that's all she wrote! I have a small space above some of my cabinets in my room. Over the years I have tried to put decorative items on the soffit, but to no avail. It was just too small of a distance from cabinet to ceiling and nothing looked…

Create fun & easy bird artworks with kids! Find out how to teach a little color vocabulary with this simple bird painting idea.

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... on...

I posted details about this lesson last year here, so this year I'll just post the pictures.