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KinderArt® Lesson/Activity

FRUIT COLOR WHEEL

Grade: K-2
Age: 4-8

Submitted by: Kasia Ciesla, an artist and art educator from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Objectives:

Children create a colour wheel which is fun and a nice decorative reminder of colour-mixing/primary and secondary colours/complementaries.

What You Need:

  • pencil
  • white paper
  • tempera paint in primary colours (red, yellow, blue)
  • brushes
  • water
  • scissors
  • glue
  • card stock paper/posterboard

What You Do:

  1. Begin by asking children to draw a banana and an apple, which they will paint yellow and red respectively. (For younger children: pre-draw fruit shapes that they may paint in)

  2. Then they may paint a number of blue dots, which will represent blueberries.

  3. Ask children to draw a lime, then ask what colour it should be. Instruct them in mixing green from yellow and blue, so they may paint the lime green.

  4. Do the same for an orange (yellow+red), and a plum or cluster of grapes (blue+red).

  5. Once painted fruits have dried, cut them out.

  6. Cut a circle out of card.

  7. Beginning with primary colours, glue "fruit" around the plate according to their colour to create a colour wheel.
Note: when pasting "fruit" onto the "plate", make a game of it. Ask the kids where each colour should go to see if they remember how each colour was a achieved. Tell children to keep their fruit plate handy wherever they make art, as a reminder of colour mixing.

This project had wonderful results. Bright and beautiful pieces were created even by very little ones.

Recommended Products:

The Science Book of Color
by Neil Ardley
This book explains the principles of color and gives instructions for a variety of simple experiments.

Biography:

Kasia Ciesla is an artist and art educator from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

© Kasia Ciesla and KinderArt®

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