Primary colors kindergarten art

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

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

The art room echoed "Oh look, green!" and "I just made orange!" as first graders overlapped primary colors to make a background for their Mouse Paint mice. I used Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint to reinforce the concept of primary and secondary colors. Students started with yellow cake tempera and painted about one third of their background, starting at the corner and brushing towards the center. Then, after getting their brushes REALLY clean they did the same with red paint, overlapping…

This week in art class we studied the primary colors and self-portraits. We first painted the backg...

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…

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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 week, kindergarten continued their exploration of line, and started these fun line paintings! We used a new medium, to them, oil pastels and tempera cakes. 😄 Here's how we did it! Materials: Sax 90lb paper Crayola Oil Pastels Jack Richeson Semi-Moist tempera cakes First, we reviewed the different types of lines. Then, I showed them how to draw the lines from side to side of their (vertical) paper. I also talked about how you need to make the lines dark with the oil pastels, or they…

Handprint Pop Art Activity - Andy looking for a super simple, super fun Andy Warhol activity for kids? Whatever the age, thes HAndy Warhols Are a fun project to make with kids. And perfect for Father's Day (combine Dad's hand with the kids?) So cute!