Tri Colored Snails Lesson Plan: Painting for Kids

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Tri-Colored Snails

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Grade: K-2 • Age: 4-7 • Written by: Alexa
[Alexa is a teacher and artist from Bucharest, Romania.]

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Objectives:

Little ones will learn about primary colors and color mixing.

Vocabulary:

Primary colors are the colors from which all other colors are mixed. They are red, blue and yellow.

What You Need:

white paper
paint (primary colors)
paint brushes
example of a color wheel (optional)

What You Do:

Talk about primary colors.
Give each child a piece of paper.
Ask them to trace 3 concentric circles using blue, red and yellow (explain them they should use pure colors and try not to mix them at this point). This is the snail's shell.
Then, let the children draw the snail's head and eyes. These can be painted also using primary colors or secondary colors that have been mixed by the children.

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Recommended Books:

Are You a Snail?
by Judy Allen
This book is an excellent read-aloud and with the help of an adult, a nice early reader for K-1 students. It would be a wonderful addition to an invertebrate, backyard animals or other animal science curriculum.

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