Color Garden

An easy and fun art project to teach primary, secondary and complimentary colors for the kids.

What was needed:

Art block

copy paper

water color/oil pastels

pencil & eraser

scissors 

glue

How we did it

1. We a painted paper(coloring the whole page) with single light color.

2. While it dried we sketched three circles on a copy paper. And in another, we drew three lines(using ruler) in equal distance dividing the paper into three sections.

3. We discussed about primary colors and what we might get when we mix primary colors with each other. Discuss how one color compliment each other(complimentary colors).

4. After some fun experimenting with color mixing, we filled in the circles with primary colors. 

Then on the the other paper we made secondary colors  - painting two primary colors on top of each other to make secondary colors- thus making three secondary colors.

5. We then cut the circles out.
6. Cut the secondary color rectangles, folded them into four and cut in shape of petals.

7. Now we went back to the art notebook. We glued each secondary color petals in one circle and the respective complimentary color circle as the center nectar area. We then drew and colored stems for the flowers.

Why we did it:

This simple color, cut and paste project teaches them all about primary secondary and complimentary colors in such an easy way.

Now whenever they forget a thing about color they know they can go to the color garden and check.

Here are few pictures from our students

 


See you soon with another simple and fun artwork.