Color Wheel

The other day we created color wheels with colored clay. (I used Model Magic by Crayola.) I gave each learner blank color wheels and a small blob of clay in each of the three primary colors. 

We then mixed the colors to fill the remaining 9 spaces of the color wheel. Lastly they learned how to flatten, roll and pinch the clay and made their own clay sculptures.

Materials: clay in the three primary colors (I used Model Magic by Crayola), color wheel sheets

Texture!

We started our study of texture by going around the circle passing brown paper bags containing items of different textures. I used a pine cone, cotton balls and some sand paper. Then we did crayon rubbings of various textures. I both brought in items (bubble wrap, the netting that fruit comes in, etc...) and we did rubbings of things around the room (the bumpy concrete outside the classroom, the grainy plastic of their chairs, etc...)


We also read this great texture book:

Jane Brocket's Cover Concepts Spiky, Slimy, Smooth: What is Texture

Then we put it all together and made these "texture sandwiches". I did these on mat board donated by my local frame shop and used various materials such as:

• bubble wrap
• various papers
• yarns
• tissue
• cardboard (corrugated)
• shredded paper
• doilies
• foam
• fabrics
• pasta

 It was fun for the learners to name all the layers when they were finished: "A fluffy ham, holey cheese and crinkly lettuce sandwich."

The study of texture in art is a great tie-in to using "describing words" in their writing. At the end of our texture study we brainstormed a list of all the different texture describing words we could come up with.

Materials: mat board, various textured materials (see list above), glue (note: you might need a hot glue gun to attach some of the heavier materials)