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Monet’s Ice Cream Sundae Party
1st Grade Ice Cream Sundae…don’t you just love kids’ art??! This is a FUN lesson in color mixing and mixing tints (a tint is any color plus white). I got this out of an old School Arts Magazine years...
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Create Your Own Color Wheel
Nothing teaches you as much about color mixing as creating your own color wheel! Here’s some helpful vocabulary and directions for creating a color wheel of your own: Primary colors — red, yellow and...
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Rorschach Creatures
This is a favorite lesson I do with Kindergarten every fall. They love the surprise of opening their papers to reveal colorful designs and the fun of using their imaginations to “discover” unique...
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Color Mixing with Kindergarten
Flowers by GabrielI love how K’s will intuitively paint a line of blue across the top of the paper for the sky, because the sky is above them! (They usually need to be taught to make the sky touch the...
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Valentine Color Mixing
You can mix a “tint” of any color just by adding white to it. Painting with tints lends itself well to Valentine projects, like this colorful card made from a 12“x18” painting folded in half. 1....
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Cityscapes with Tints and Shades
Our Kinders are becoming experts at color mixing! This time we added white to make tints and black to make shades as we created these sweet “candy-colored” cities! Materials:9x12 white heavyweight...
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Kandinsky for Kinders
I love this color mixing lesson inspired by Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky! Kandinsky was an accomplished musician as well as an artist, so it’s fun to play music while the students are working....
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Painting Great Greens!
Green is a color that students often take for granted. When painting greens, many will default to just using the green in their paint set. This results in paintings that lack depth and interest....
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Mixing 100 Colors
Today was our 100th Day of School, so to help our 2nd graders celebrate, I decided to challenge them to mix 100 different colors! I used the Apple program “Pages” to make a grid for them to paint...
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Blossoming “Popcorn Trees”
Spring has sprung, and to celebrate, our Kinders painted trees blossoming with flowers made of popcorn! This lesson reinforces the color mixing skills we’ve been working on all year, as well as...
View Article5 Reasons Why You Only Need 3 Tempera Colors for Your K-5 Students
Shopping for tempera paint can make you feel like a kid in a candy store! How can you resist filling your basket with all those juicy colors?? When you’re in the market for paint for your elementary...
View ArticleMix 100 Colors – a Color Mixing Art Activity for Kids
This fun color mixing art activity is perfect for kids in grades 2 and up. Originally, I created this project to celebrate our “100th Day of School“, but kids will enjoy doing this anytime! Your...
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