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Design Motifs and Eggs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create an Easter egg that displays at least one secondary color, one primary color, and one motif of design.
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Thanksgiving Turkey Napkins

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars explore painting.  In this Thanksgiving art lesson plan, students trace their hands on 4 cloth napkins sent from home and use fabric paint to decorate them as hand print turkeys.
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Colorful Colorado

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the components of white light as viewed through a prism. The multiple colors of the spectrum produced are related to wavelengths and experienced through the creation of a color wheel.
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Visual Art: Primary Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify primary colors and consider their use in works by Henri Mattise and Mary Cassatt. They conduct an experiment with food coloring and then draw a color tree differentiating between warm and cool colors.
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Dreaming with Marc Chagall

For Teachers 7th
Students scrutinize the early twentieth-century artists who dealt with expressionism and abstraction, especially Marc Chagall. This four lesson unit examines the life and work of Chagall and supports the student creation of works similar...
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I Am Special, You Are Special Too #2

For Teachers K
After being read a story, the students attempt to identify one individual difference, and one thing about themselves that is similar to other students in the class and one thing that makes them special. For the art lesson, students...
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Colors: What is Pink?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study colors. They listen to poems, identify their favorite colors, and describe objects that are pink, red, and orange. They collect pictures from magazines of objects that are their favorite color and create a class dictionary.
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Color Scheme Acrylic Painting Self-Assessment

For Students 9th - 12th
Being a good artist means being able to critique your own work. Here young painters will take a short quiz on color schemes in acrylic painting and then reflect on their use of color in a recently completed piece. A great worksheet for...
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Color Mix Up

For Students K - 1st
In this art activity, students use the template of shapes and paint the colors as directed with water colors. Students allow the paints to dry before applying the second overlapping color. This activity is geared to the adults who will...
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Fine Arts

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Art Teachers should love this presentation which highlights some of the basic elements of pieces of visual art. Purposes for creating art, art processes, art media, and art subject matter are all topics presented in a colorful way. A lot...
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Graph Paper Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young artists divide a piece of graph paper into sections using rectangles, squares, and triangles. They then fill each section with patterns of shape and color. Elementary graders describe how their patterns are organized. Secondary...
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Painting a Color Wheel

For Students 2nd - 8th
You have to love the color wheel, it's just so colorful! Your kids will love it too, as they work through an introductory exercise which allows them the opportunity to draw and paint a color wheel of their own. This wheel focuses on...
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Ancient Aztecs

For Teachers 8th Standards
Is it a calendar? A religious symbol? A political statement? One thing for certain is that Aztec sun stone designs remain an important symbol in Mexican cultural art. Young artists craft their own Aztec Sun design incorporating ideas...
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Incredible Art

Tints and Shades Hanging

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Here's a mobile assignment that will brighten up your classroom. Each group is assigned one color from the color wheel, paints the pure color, three tints, and three shades of that color on precut forms the group designs, and hangs the...
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Arts Ed Washington

Art Lessons in the Classroom: Our Family

For Teachers K - 2nd
Blend art and family into one lesson with an activity involving oil pastels and watercolors. After viewing a few famous portraits of families, learners create masterpieces that represent their own families.
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Mr. Printables

I Heart Color

For Teachers K - 2nd
Color wheels. Primary, secondary, tertiary color wheels. Colorful flower wheels, black-and-white wheels. Grab this pack of printables and templates for use with all of your color lessons.
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Mixing Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders, exploring and experimenting with the primary colors of red, yellow and blue, mix different colored icings together to create other colors formed with primary colors. The color wheel is also discussed and shown during this...
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Sunset Silhouette (primary colours)

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars draw and paint the sunset, learning about the primary colors while painting and mixing.
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Creative Color Wheel

For Students K - 2nd
In this color theory worksheet, students draw a large circle on a piece of paper and make six shapes evenly spaced around the circle. Students color the wheel according to the directions. This worksheet is geared toward adults who will...
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Biology Junction

Energy Flow Through an Ecosystem: Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
When a minnow eats a piece of plastic, that garbage often tracks through multiple animals, causing harm to each as it passes through the food chain. Scholars learn about food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids with a presentation. It...
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Museum of Tolerance

Music Evokes Memories and Emotions

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Dim the lights, take a deep breath, and press play to explore the emotions and memories that music elicits. Class members begin using relaxation techniques designed to create a positive listening experience. As music plays, learners...
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From Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of an Institution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and evaluate primary and secondary sources relating to James Smithson and his gift to the United States. In this Smithson to Smithsonian lesson, students also examine the debate surrounding how to use the gift from...
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Warm and Cool: Sun

For Teachers 1st
First graders think about the sunshine colors and brainstorm the different colors found in the sunshine and identify warm colors and cool colors. They create a painting of a sun usin only warm colors using tempera paint and basic...
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Edible Color Wheels

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students create an edible color wheel using cookies and frosting. They mix tints into frosting to simulate the color of the color wheel.

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