In my efforts to give the older kids an expanded art vocabulary, I did an early lesson on color. Notably primary, secondary, complimentary, warm and cool. I put up a color wheel and asked them to name the 6 main colors and gave them an overview that complimentary colors are opposite each other.
This was a brain teaser for many because there were several rules:
- Warm colors (red, orange, yellow) for the hand
- Cool colors (blue, purple, green) for the background
- I wanted them to have a pattern to their color choice so that they did not repeat colors next to each other. This led to some confusion, but if they kept inside the lines it worked okay.
- If a ring in the hand was orange, then the rest of the ring in the background needs to be the compliment: blue, etc.
WONDERFUL!!!
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