Collaborative Color Wheel

The collaborative color wheel was my follow up lesson to the color recipe books, and to a bigger discussion about rainbows and color wheels we had during Art Talk.   

Art Talk is a 30 minute period I have with each class once a month where I have time to connect art and literacy in their classroom.  Last month this was a perfect time to read a book called Colors, and have a discussion about rainbows and color wheels.  The children really enjoyed the book and the conversation.

During this time while we were making our recipe books, I asked each child to document their colors on a long strip of paper in the middle of the table.  When a student finished their book I asked them to cut some of the circles out. (This is also great practice with fine motor skills and cutting in general.) 

 

Then when that job was done... finished students began sorting the colors into trays.  

Then each class got two pieces of the color wheel to work with...opposite colors so they had space to work, which of course make them complimentary! They added and overlapped all of the colors they made. 

This amazing color wheel is the collaboration of all 60 second graders and the colors they made for their recipe books.