Although it is now almost February, and the last project featured on the Kindergarten blog was Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie, students have been very busy in the art room! In December, they made beautiful clay ornaments. Unfortunately, everything goes so quickly during those lessons, I was unable to grab my camera to snap any pictures. You can, however, read about the whole clay experience here. When we returned from December break, Kindergarten students started learning about the color wheel. We started with primary colors. I took out my interactive foam board color wheel, and removed all of the colored pie pieces. I asked for student volunteers to come up and choose one primary color to put back onto the wheel. I was very impressed with the number of students who already knew what the primary colors were! Once the red, yellow, and blue pieces were back in their spots on the color wheel, I told the students that the rest of the colors (orange, green, and purple) were going to take a little nap, and piled them up off to the side. The first part of the primary printmaking project was to cut three squares and/or rectangles from old sheet music and glue them onto a white piece of paper. Once that was done, the next step involved using primary colored crayons to color over the music notes. Students were allowed to use any combination of the three colors they wished on each square/rectangle. The following week, students were given an introduction to printmaking. They learned about its concept, and were given a demonstration to see how they would be doing their own version of printmaking on their primary colored music notes. The very first step was to mount the white paper from the previous week onto a piece of black paper to give it a nice boarder. While demonstrating, I asked the students where I should place the white piece (Way over here? Way up here? How about down here?). They answered with a chorus of "Nooooooooo!" and told me that I needed to put it right in the middle. Smart kids! For the printmaking part, I cut 3x3" pieces of cardboard, and showed the students how to hold it at the top and do one quick dip into the ink (the "ink" was actually washable liquid tempera paint). Once the bottom of the cardboard had been "inked," students watched as I printed lines around each of my three music note shapes. I made sure they understood that one dip in the ink goes a very long way, and that they might not even need to do a second dip. Students were very eager to try it themselves, and really loved it once they got started. In both classes, as soon as they began, you could hear a pin drop! Students were focusing, concentrating, and having a blast while they created their prints. The finished pieces are stunning! Check them out in the gallery below (click to enlarge): Excellent work, Kindergarteners! Next up, you guessed it, secondary colors!
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