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Objectives:

What You Need:

• Tempera Paint (brown, black, white)
• Brushes
• Water
• Paint Shirts
• Glue
• Neutral Color Handout
• White construction paper 10x12
• Construction paper 12x18

What You Do:

This lesson was integrated with an animal lesson that the students were doing in their regular class.

1. Talk to students about new colors. Black, Brown, Gray, and white. Explain that these colors have their own name... Neutral colors. These colors can go with any other color in the rainbow.

2. Discuss things that have neutral colors in them (pets, etc).

3. Tell students that today they are going to paint a picture about animals using only neutral colors. Also explain that they are going to have to make one of the neutral colors..gray.

4. After students have gotten their supplies and are ready, you can start your lesson. Tell students to take a little black and a lot of white and mix them together. What color did they get? (All should say gray).

5. Let them begin painting. Remind them to rinse their brushes before they use another color.

6. Once they have finished painting they need to clean up. This will allow the Tempera to dry a little, before they glue it to the paper.

7. After the paint has dried (sometimes you may need to let it set overnight). They need to glue their painting to the 12x18 construction paper. They take the Neutral Color Handout and glue it either at the top or the bottom of the page.

8. You have another completed page in your art book.

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