During the first semester, Grade 2 students learn about colour theory. This includes primary, secondary, warm & cool colours. This lesson includes a mini lesson and a final painting, both based on warm & cool colours. While it allows students to gain solid theoretical knowledge while also producing a beautiful piece of artwork, the only drawback is that it's very time consuming. If you are trying this out with a higher grade level then perhaps it won't be.
Materials required for the mini lesson:
- old magazines
- glue
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Duration: 1 lesson of 80 minutes
The mini lesson:
1. I displayed an image of the colour wheel and explained to students that we will be learning about a new group of colours - warm & cool colours. I divided the colour wheel in half and asked students to guess which half was warm. Of course they picked out yellow because they said it looked like the sun and the sun makes them feel so hot! They related it to life in Dubai where its hot and sunny pretty much all year round. Then we brainstormed more real life objects which could be warm such as autumn, bananas, apples, lemons, oranges. We did the same for cool colours. I also explained to the students that colours have feelings and emotions so we related each colour to a particular emotion. For example, red makes us feel angry but it is also the colour of love on Valentine's Day.
2. For the activity, I followed Kathy Barbro's complete instructions here on making a warm and cool collage. Thank you Kathy Barbro - you have saved my life again!
3. During the lesson, my students would often come across a colour that they would not know and would ask me "Miss, is this warm or cool". In a situation like that, instead of just giving them the answer, I would always ask "Does it look more reddish/yellowish to you or more on the blueish/greenish side?" That way, I got them to figure it out for themselves.
The inspiration for the main painting came from here. Thank you so much Rett Grayson for the idea.
Materials required for the main activity:
- pre-drawn grid and circle on an A3 sheet cut into a square
- watercolours
- brushes, water pots
- pencils, erasers
- black markers
Duration: 4 lessons of 80 minutes each
The main activity:
1. To recap the warm and cool colours learned in the mini lesson, I divided the class in two groups. One group was warm and the other was cool. Everyone in the warm group had to talk to their partner and make a list of all the warm colours they could think of. The same was for the cool group. Feedback to whole class.
2. In the original image, there are trees in the middle of the circle. However, I wanted a simpler theme so I chose leaves. I had an image on the board of different kinds of leaves and students drew one or more leaves inside their circle.
3. Next, students decided which part of their painting (inside the circle or outside) did they want to keep warm, and which part cool.
4. Each student had a box of watercolours and I demonstrated how they could mix various tones of each colour group for a more sophisticated painting. My lower abilities tended to use the colours straight out of the box. They began painting and this was the end of the first lesson.
5. Students continued to paint during the next 3 lessons as this is the part that takes the longest. The final part is to colour in the leaves with a black marker when it's all dry. Don't they look beautiful?
Thank you to my co-teacher Maggie for helping me edit the photos!
Materials required for the mini lesson:
- old magazines
- glue
-
Duration: 1 lesson of 80 minutes
The mini lesson:
1. I displayed an image of the colour wheel and explained to students that we will be learning about a new group of colours - warm & cool colours. I divided the colour wheel in half and asked students to guess which half was warm. Of course they picked out yellow because they said it looked like the sun and the sun makes them feel so hot! They related it to life in Dubai where its hot and sunny pretty much all year round. Then we brainstormed more real life objects which could be warm such as autumn, bananas, apples, lemons, oranges. We did the same for cool colours. I also explained to the students that colours have feelings and emotions so we related each colour to a particular emotion. For example, red makes us feel angry but it is also the colour of love on Valentine's Day.
2. For the activity, I followed Kathy Barbro's complete instructions here on making a warm and cool collage. Thank you Kathy Barbro - you have saved my life again!
3. During the lesson, my students would often come across a colour that they would not know and would ask me "Miss, is this warm or cool". In a situation like that, instead of just giving them the answer, I would always ask "Does it look more reddish/yellowish to you or more on the blueish/greenish side?" That way, I got them to figure it out for themselves.
The inspiration for the main painting came from here. Thank you so much Rett Grayson for the idea.
Materials required for the main activity:
- pre-drawn grid and circle on an A3 sheet cut into a square
- watercolours
- brushes, water pots
- pencils, erasers
- black markers
Duration: 4 lessons of 80 minutes each
The main activity:
1. To recap the warm and cool colours learned in the mini lesson, I divided the class in two groups. One group was warm and the other was cool. Everyone in the warm group had to talk to their partner and make a list of all the warm colours they could think of. The same was for the cool group. Feedback to whole class.
2. In the original image, there are trees in the middle of the circle. However, I wanted a simpler theme so I chose leaves. I had an image on the board of different kinds of leaves and students drew one or more leaves inside their circle.
3. Next, students decided which part of their painting (inside the circle or outside) did they want to keep warm, and which part cool.
4. Each student had a box of watercolours and I demonstrated how they could mix various tones of each colour group for a more sophisticated painting. My lower abilities tended to use the colours straight out of the box. They began painting and this was the end of the first lesson.
5. Students continued to paint during the next 3 lessons as this is the part that takes the longest. The final part is to colour in the leaves with a black marker when it's all dry. Don't they look beautiful?
Thank you to my co-teacher Maggie for helping me edit the photos!
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