COLOR WHEEL PROJECTS

PRE K COLOR WHEELS
We talked about colors and used crayons to mix colors on paper. With premade circle cut outs the students placed the colors on the wheel after mixing the combos together. They then turned their cutouts into flowers. Glue sticks were a hit with this group. 

KINDERGARTEN COLOR WHEEL FLOWERS
The kindergarten classes talked about colors and mixed colors on their papers using crayons. We then cut out two pieces of each color for the flower petals and glued around a flower center that they designed themselves. 

First Grade Color and Line Exploration
This project was a continuation of the first week where we explored different types of lines. This week they used water colors to add color between their oil pastel lines. They loved seeing how the colors blended together with the water colors and had a terrific time exploring color combinations. 
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Grade 3 explored warm and cool colors by learning about Kandinsky. This project is still in progress but they are using warm and cool colors to create concentric circles. 

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Crumpled Paper Activity
I talked about this in the first week but the students loved this and it was amazing for color exploration. They crumpled up a piece of paper after reading Peter Reynold's "Ish" and used water colors to add the primary colors and then watched as they blended to make the secondary colors. We saved all of the papers and will use them for a future project. 

GRADE 5 ZEBRAS FOR COLOR WHEEL DISCUSSION

I took the students through the drawing of a zebra step by step on a piece of scrap paper. After discussing and learning about the colors in the color wheel, I told them to make the zebra stripes the colors found in the wheel. We used watercolors and sharpies. 

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COLOR WHEELS FOR ALL 
I find having color wheels done on the first days of school is terrific for exploring color and teaching them about contrasting colors and complementary colors, etc. We used all different techniques in the middle school to create these and they will hang around the art studio for the rest of the year as guides for their artwork. 
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ARCHITECTURAL ART WHEELS IN 6TH GRADE
The students chose the location of their choice for the theme for their color wheel. I told them to choose a place with interesting architecture and make that the focus of their wheel. 
After discussing the color wheel, they then created a pen drawing of their city in the round and used the colors of the color wheel to watercolor the background in. 
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Seventh Grade Color Wheel Figures In Motion
The 7th grade used posable wooden figures to create the silhouettes for their color wheel figure. On scrap paper, using the models, they worked out the action figure they would like to sketch the most. After sketching, they then cut out their figure and traced it onto good paper. After talking about the color wheel and making color wheel samples on paper plates, they then filled in the figures with the color wheel colors. 

EIGHTH GRADE EYE COLOR WHEELS
After creating color wheels with tissue paper on tagboard, I demonstrated a drawing of the eye which they sketched on paper. They then redid their sketch on good paper turning the iris of the eye into a color wheel.