Primary Lesson 2: Color
Express Yourself With Color
What You'll Learn in This Lesson
Isn’t it amazing! Three little colors can be mixed together in different combinations to create all the colors in the world. RED, YELLOW and BLUE are the three primary colors.
Here We Go, COLOR!
Colors help us express our feelings. They are a HUGE part of our lives. We see them in the food we eat, our clothes, in animals, a tropical jungle, a sunset, a dark night or in a dry desert. Colors are used to attract attention or help creatures hide in their environments.
Experience COLOR and discover other art elements in this lesson with a 10-minute video and easy-to-follow projects.
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- COLOR WHEEL: Learn about three primary colors and mix them to make secondary colors. Also in focus, warm and cool colors. All will be painted into a color wheel. Color wheels are easy and exciting to make. Just follow step-by-step teacher directions, printed in the Lesson Plan. After the color wheel activity, students may experiment by mixing all the colors they can imagine!
- WARM & COOL ANIMALS: Learn about the art elements of COLOR, SHAPE, SPACE, LINE, TEXTURE and the principles of balance, contrast, pattern, variety, and emphasis. Warm and cool colors are the focus that encourages study into how the color and texture of animals deal with life in different climates. Animals may be designed with paint, markers, crayons or as a collage’ with textured fabrics, buttons, etc. Creativity and materials are unlimited!
- CRAYON FEAST & THE ART WE EAT: Learn about the art elements of COLOR, SHAPE and TEXTURE. Included are the principles of balance, repetition, pattern, unity, variety, proportion and emphasis in different fruits and vegetables. This project allows students to study in-depth the food we eat—what it looks like on the outside and the inside—inspiring creativity in colorful designs. “Food Prints” are also a project!
- TROPICAL BIRDS or UNDERSEA MURAL: Learn about the art elements of COLOR, LINE, SHAPE and SPACE and the principles of repetition, pattern, unity, variety, and emphasis. This project is a group activity that produces one unified mural that combines many hot and cool colorful creative images of birds, or other species. Students may illustrate a lesson about the native life of a steamy tropical rainforest, cool undersea life, frozen arctic life or blistering-hot desert life.
Also included in this lesson are 3 Book Art Projects:
- Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert - Project: Food Prints
- The Mixed-up Chameleon by Eric Carle - Read & Write Art Project: Texture Creatures
- Legend of the Indian Paintbrush - Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tommy de Paolo - Read & Write Project: Warm and Cool Buckskin Designs