Warm and Cool Colors

3:50 PM

For this project, I tried to spend more time focusing on helping the students understand the art concept. I also wanted to allow them to have more creativity, while still implementing what they had been learning about in class. I think it turned out well!

Art Concepts

Content Covered: Color

State Standards and Objectives:

-Discuss the effect an abundance of warm or cool colors has on the mood of artworks suggested for this grade level.

-Color or paint a work of art using predominantly "warm" or "cool" colors.

-Clean and put back to order art making areas after projects.

-Respect other students ’ artworks as well as one’s own.

-Divide and use colors into "warm" or "cool" groups.

-Use and develop skills for beginning a drawing and other kinds of art; e.g., blocking-in, stick figures, gestures.

-Create a work of art that reflects part of family history/traditions or neighborhood history/culture

Learning Outcomes: Students will understand the difference between warm and cool colors. They will use their art as a way to record what they have learned about another culture.

Lesson Plan

Materials Needed:

-Projector

-Strips of different colored construction paper

-White paper (the big ones we used for the autumn picture would be great)

-pencils

-water colors

-paintbrushes (the small ones would probably be best)

-water cups

Lesson Sequence:

1. Review what we talked about in the first visit - different colors show different emotions. Why?Warm and cool colors

2. Show this color wheel and talk about it:

3. Show these paintings by Picasso:

Talk about the way the warm and cool colors make the paintings feel.

4. Pass each child a strip of construction paper (random colors)

5. On the board, Write "Warm" on one half and "Cool" on the other half (we used their pocket board instead).

6. Have the students come put their paper onto the board in the category they think it would go under.

7. Students sit back down. Talk about how the board looks. The colors look like different temperatures.

8. Discuss the countries they have been talking about with "Christmas around the world" - what countries are cold during Christmas and what countries are warm? Write them on the board under "warm" or "cool"

10. For this project, the students will choose a country and make a picture of something they learned about Christmas in that country using warm or cool colors (whatever category their country falls under).

11. Students choose a country and block out their picture using pencil

12. Week 2: Students paint their picture with watercolors (using primarily warm or cool colors).