Posted in Artist and Composer Studies

Today for an art lesson we learned about warm and cool colors. I started off by asking the girls to tell me what colors they thought of when they thought of FIRE. They  named yellow, orange, red and brown. Well, those are WARM colors. Now, what colors do you think of when you think of winter, water, snow? Blues, greens, etc. So that was our introduction to warm and cool colors.

Then we found all the WARM colors we could find out of our crayon box and our colored pencil box. All the different shades of red, yellow, orange, brown, etc. We used this color wheel found on homeschool share (under the unit for Goody O'Grumpity) to show the different colors that are warm.

And finally, I let them PAINT! Why does this excite them so? I only gave them warm colors to paint with today. They all had fun painting!

Hannah's warm-colored rainbow!