In this inexpensive lesson, students mix primary colors to paint a pumpkin scene on a rock

Title – Mixing Primary Colors
By – Ramona Toledo
Primary Subject – Art
Grade Level – K – 5

Materials:

• Clean, palm size rock for each student
• Paper plates (the inexpensive kind)
• Acrylic paints: red, blue, yellow and white
• Paintbrushes
• Paper towels
• Cup of water for each student to clean brushes.

Goal:

• to help students learn that primary colors of red, blue and yellow make secondary colors.
• to help students learn spatial concepts of “in front of” and “on top of”.

Objective:

• to paint a rock with secondary colors as children explore using and mixing red with blue, blue with yellow, and red with yellow
• to make and paint a purple background, green grass and an orange pumpkin on the rock

Length: 20 minutes

Lesson:

• Have children put a 2-3 inch circle of red and a 2-3 inch circle of blue paint on the paper plate.
• Have the children mix the paints and paint the top half of their rock (purple).
• Next have the children mix blue and yellow for the grass and paint the lower half of the rock to meet the purple.
• The white is used to paint a fence for the pumpkins to sit against, or to sit on.
• The last things to paint are the pumpkins in front of the fence.

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