Kindergarten: Mouse Paint

Mouse Paint

In the beginning of the year our Kindergarteners learned about the primary colors, red, yellow and blue.  We began talking about the colors using the book Mouse Paint by Ellen Wash.  Following our reading students were given a cup of red, yellow and blue paint, and a piece of paper divided into 6 squares.  Together we began to mix the colors to make all the colors we find in the color wheel.  We mixed them one at a time, then painted each square on our paper a different color.  Once our paper's dried we used tear dropped shaped tracers for our mice.  Students traced the shape, cut it out and placed it onto their paper, in the same order as our color wheel.  Finally, we used back markers to turn our shapes into mice, just like our friends in the book Mouse Paint.

Grade 1: Kandinsky Circle Study

Students began this project by looking at Wassily Kandinsky’s Color Study of Circles in Squares.  They discussed the colors and shapes that they found in the painting.  They then learned how to create concentric circles, or circles that go around each other.  The students were then given a paper divided into 12 squares and water souable oil pastels.  First and second graders dipped their pastels into water, then began making circles inside the squares.  It was our attempt to replicate the same study that Kandinsky did.

Wassily Kandinsky, Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles

First and Second Grade Color Studies: