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First Day In Art Class- "Painted Papers"

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Hi everyone!  It has been a while since I have written a blog post.  Since my last post: -I've bought a house. -Graduated from grad school. -Had a baby.  and as we all are--- currently surviving a pandemic.  But I am excited for the new school year, nonetheless. With the start of another school year comes the dread of creating a fun and engaging lesson for the first visit. I don't know about you, but I always have a hard time coming up with something interesting. This year I stuck with something simple yet fun.  I teach upper elementary, so each grade level did the exact same lesson-- Kwik Stix "Painted papers" using Analogous colors.  I always start my first visit to art with my rules and expecations video. Back when Bitmojis were a hit in the classroom, I made a video explaining the rules of the art room. Its only 5 minutes, keeps the kids' attention, and I don't have to say the same thing one million times--at two schools.  Next, we reviewed analogous color

A Fun, New Color Theory Lesson!

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Yeah, I KNOW! It's been a WHILEEEE. HAPPY NEW YEAR! I am back with a new post on a lesson I did a month ago with my Art Ideals kiddos. I'd been searching for a color theory lesson for eons and none of them really tickled my fancy. So I got out my sketchbook and came up with my own. I knew for a fact that I wanted to include a bit of color mixing in this project. I immediately thought--VENN DIAGRAM!! My students know what these are and they also apply to the idea of color mixing. The color on the left and the color on the right MEET to make a new color. Boom. We've got a plan. I also wanted this lesson to be abstract considering I hadn't done an abstract art project EVER so I settled on the basis of shapes and line. Simple. We started out by tracing paper plates and tops of cups to make irregular Venn diagrams. We used 18"x24" paper so these were BIG!   I wanted to make sure that we were able to mix every secondary color. We made four