Students will learn the difference between warm and cool colors.
By MaryAnne Messier
What You Need:
- Markers (red, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple)
- White Paper
- Glue
- Scissors
- Warm Cool Colors Handout
- 12×18 construction paper
What You Do:
- Review the primary and secondary colors with students. Talk about how these colors can also be grouped in another way. Warm and cool.
- Talk about things that make us feel warm and what colors they are. Like the sun is yellow and makes us feel warm, fire has yellow, read and orange and also makes us feel warm. Do the same for the cool colors (blues, greens and blue-violets).
- Once students have an understanding, explain that they are going to draw pictures that make them feel warm and cool using only the warm and cool colors. Remind them that if they are going to use red, yellow and orange (warm colors) they must draw something that is warm. The same with greens, blues and purple (cool colors).
- After the students have drawn their pictures using their markers (they always seem to love to use their markers) have them glue their pictures onto the large construction paper.
- Then hand out the Warm/Cool colors handout. Have them color in the words “Warm and Cool” and then round the corners to fit on the page. Glue and then date the back.You have another completed another page in your art book.
► Go to Page Five (Neutral Colors)
Related Lessons and Resources:
► Warm/Cool Color Handout
► The Art Book – Index
The Art Book is a special series of lessons from Maryanne Messier, a teacher from Janesville Wisconsin. “This Art Book theme was created to help art educators by giving them another form of assessment. So many times we as art educators find it difficult to assess a child’s progress when projects are sent home. By using portfolio assessment it is easier to judge a child’s progress because you can see it from beginning to end. The idea of the art book came from a colleague of mine, Mary Jo Paup. She developed the “book” idea while working towards her masters. When she told me about the idea I decided to use it with my kindergartners. I used the Janesville School District’s Art Curriculum as a basis for each project page. It was a challenge but well worth it. The beauty of portfolio assessment is that it starts in kindergarten and can follow them through their elementary career. As the child grows so do the books and the lessons. If you decide to use this form of assessment in your class, I hope your class enjoys these lessons as much as mine did. -Maryanne Messier
Some images are courtesy of Teach a Fish Homeschool.
