School Wide Collaborative Flower Color Wheel

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School Wide Collaborative Flower Collage Color Wheel

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This is one project that fits a TON of art learning into it! I started my school year off with this project and could not be happier with the results. In the end I created two, floor to ceiling pieces for both campus that I teach at in my school (K-2 and 3-5). This was my first year at a new school and this lesson really allowed me to assess student ability and background knowledge. I also was able to adjust the pacing based on grade levels. For example 3-5th grade finished what 1-2 did in two lessons and kindergarten did in three lessons. So here's how it went! 

Part 1: Students learned about primary colors and why they are important. They then painted in a small rectangle of paper with their primary colors; one red, one yellow, and one blue.
Part 2: Together we went over our secondary colors. We did a whole class "science experiment" in which we took cups water mixed with tempera paint in our primary colors and poured them together to get our secondary colors, and wouldn't you know, it worked! I also answered students burning question of, "What happens if we mix them all together!?". They learned they all mix to brown (pause for the poop jokes). 
Part 3: Students created the secondary colors by mixing their primary colors, they also mixed their neutral color brown. After each color was mixed they again, painted a rectangle of paper fully in that color. 
Part 4: Back to the color wheel. Next we looked at our color wheel and realized that there are also some other colors on it, tertiary colors! We compared a real color wheel to the flower color wheel we had in the room (yes, I did precut and label the outlined flower on butcher paper).
Part 5: We took our dried, painted papers and started-a-rippin'. Students worked together to rip and glue their painted papers into the correct area of their classroom's color wheel flower. Each class was responsible for creating one entire flower. They did this until each petal (primary and secondary colors) and leaf (tertiary colors) was full! 
*Teacher Time: Last but not least I went over the entire flower with a coat of modge podge to really seal it down. All-in-all it was well worth the extra work on my side to see these AMAAAZING results. 

Third Grade to Fifth Grade Flowers:






Kindergarten to Second Grade Flowers:





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