Assignment Ideas for Color

Idea #1. Colorful Ornaments

Last year I made salt dough ornaments and let the children paint them with their own designs.  I love seeing what they come up with.  This year I was thinking we could make a simple shape ornament with a cookie cutter or cup, then letting them use the idea of painting complementary colors next to each other in a design to intensify the brightness of the colors. Make sure to have an example you have made.

The recipe for the salt dough is:

8 cups of flour

3 cups of water

2 cups of salt

 Mix the flour and salt, add water, mix and knead until soft. (this takes muscle) Roll dough to about 1/4 inch thick. Cut your shapes, and use a straw or pencil to make a hole for the string.  Bake for 1 hour on an ungreased cookie sheet at 300, or place on wax paper and let them dry over night.  The time when baked varies depending on the thickness.

Idea #2.

After giving each child a piece of paper ask them do draw with only a black crayon something specific. (this could come from a book they have been studying or even a holiday refrence like a cornicopia or something that they would like to invent.  Talk to the teacher and see what they say.) Then have the children wet down their entire page and then water color all of the paper with only red, yellow and blue.






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