Primary Monsters

Kindergartners used primary colors and simple shapes
to cut, draw and glue MONSTERS!

 

 

Color Wheel Eyes Art Project

Color Wheel Eyes Art Project: 

Student Examples and Color Theory Practice

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Color Wheel Eyes continue to be one of my favorite elementary art projects because they combine color theory, painting skills, and creativity into one engaging lesson.

This project helps students practice identifying primary colors, secondary colors, and intermediate colors while creating a colorful eye-themed artwork. Students learn the organization of the color wheel and apply their knowledge in a hands-on way that results in a unique finished piece.

 

Students first reviewed color theory concepts and the organization of the color wheel. They then divided their paper into equal sections, labeled each color, and painted the complete color wheel. Once dry, students transformed their color wheels into eyes by adding an eyeball, pupil, eyelid, and eyelashes.

 

 

 

 

 

One of the things I enjoy most about this lesson is seeing how different each student's project becomes even though everyone starts with the same color wheel structure.

 

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⭐ Looking for more color wheel activities?

This lesson is also included in my 12-Part Color Wheel Bundle, which contains additional color theory lessons, worksheets, painting projects, and hands-on activities designed for elementary art classrooms.

Purchasing the bundle is a great way to save money while building a complete collection of color wheel resources.

🎨 Click here to view the 12-Part Color Wheel Bundle on Teachers Pay Teachers.

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You may also like:

🎨 Elements of Art Vocabulary Activities

🎨 Principles of Design Vocabulary Activities

🎨 Art Vocabulary Bundle

Happy Creating!

Mrs. Pearce

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Hanging Pumpkins

3rd grade students turned a flat shape into a fat form to create a round pumpkin!

First students added some texture to their papers by rubbing different shades of brown, yellow and orange using crayons.   

 

Then using a ruler, students drew straight lines evenly spaced across the back of the paper. 

 

After cutting out the lines, students then picked 12 strips of paper to have hole punched at the ends and connected with a brass fastener.  

 

Brown paper was used for a stem and green chenille stems twisted for their pumpkins vine.  Adding facial features to turn their pumpkin into a jack o’lantern was optional.

 

Painted Bats

1st grade painted recycled rolls black during one art class.  Then during their next art class I folded down the ends of the rolls while students cut out bat shaped wings using zigzag lines.  After gluing the wings onto their rolls, students used white paint to add eyes and mouth features to complete their bat.

 

 

 

Miniature Art

3rd grade created miniature artwork by gluing together craft sticks for the easel and drawing a picture using colored pencils that contains at least one building and a tree or flower.