Subject Area/Grade: Pre-kindergarten
Pre-K students will learn to create colors, from primary colors to white, and explore lines.
Goals
To create colors from primary colors and white. To explore line.
Content Area and Standards
Domain 5D: Cognition and Knowledge of the World: The Arts
PK.ARTS.5. [MA:Cr1-3.PK] Creates Media Arts PK.ARTS.5. Indicators: a. Discovers and explores media arts tools
Activity
Painting
Joy2Learn Artists /Videos that Support Project
Video – Elizabeth Murray – Creating Color
Art Forms that May Be Included
Painting
Connections to Students Passion Areas and Interests
Creative Expression, Painting. The stories of their paintings – going to the park, family etc.
Materials Needed
Paper, Paintbrushes, water, primary paint colors
Collaborators
Students may be inspired by each other since they work alongside each other.
Timeline
Week 1: Introduce black, and stroke making. Talk about lines – different types. Infuse vocabulary when working.
Week 2: Show Elizabeth Murray’s video and ask children – How do you think Elizabeth created the colors in her paintings? Introduce Blue and Yellow – exploring green.
Week 3: Show on Promethean board various works from Elizabeth Murray and other artists and ask children as they look at the colors on their tray (Blue and Red) how do you think based on what we learned last week – how the different colors can be made.
Week 4: Continue to explore art works of other artists – asking children to see if they too can create different colors
Tray will have red, blue, yellow and white and water and one brush. By this week, children should have mastered the cleaning process in order to create colors.
Other Notes
Culminating activity – display art works with dictations on how the different colors were made.
