LESSON PRESENTATION INSTRUCTIONS
COLOR
COLOR WHEEL SNAILS
Lesson Objectives: Student will learn about primary and secondary colors.
Time Required: 1 hour and a few minutes another time
Artist: Miriam Schapiro, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can, White Rabbit’s Color Book by Alan Baker (book)
Materials:
White construction paper 9×12
Circles pre-cut from white construction paper divided by pencil into 6 wedges
Tempera paint: red, blue, yellow
Paper plates or paint palettes
Paintbrushes
Brads
Black Sharpies
Presentation:
Discuss color and the color wheel.
Procedure:
- Pass out 1 circle and 1 piece of paper to each child. Write names on back of both.
- Orient paper horizontally and trace circle template onto white paper in the center. Add on a snail body.
- Set paper aside.
- Step-by-step, have the students paint 1 wedge of the circle red. Skip a wedge and paint the next yellow. Skip a wedge and paint the next one blue. Now you’ll have alternating wedges painted in the primary colors.
- Mix red and yellow to make orange and paint the wedge between the red and yellow wedges.
- Mix yellow and blue to make green and paint the wedge in between the yellow and blue.
- Mix blue and red to make purple and paint the wedge in between the red and blue.
- Set color wheels aside to dry.
- With the white construction paper with the snail drawn on: mix all the colors together to make brown and paint the snail body.
- When dry, cut out snail body and attach color wheel as the snail’s shell with a brad on a 9×12 piece of construction paper.
- With black Sharpie, have students add a spiral to the color wheel, antennae, and a face.
