PLAY DOH COLOR WHEEL |
Grade Level: K-1 |
Time Frame: 30 minutes |
TOPIC: Visual arts lesson focusing on a color wheel of the primary and |
secondary colors, constructed by the students. |
COMPONENT OBJECTIVES: |
Artistic Perception: Each student will identify the primary and |
secondary colors. Each student will construct a color wheel, using Play |
Doh in the three primary colors. |
RATIONALE: The visual arts reflect an understanding of visual |
characteristics in our environment. The construction of a color wheel |
allows students an opportunity to discover the relationship between |
colors, and make connections to objects that surround them in their |
environment. |
STRATEGY:A combination of direct instruction and guided discovery will |
be used. |
VOCABULARY: Primary color, Secondary color, Combine |
- Primary color - pigment or paint that imparts a yellow, red, or |
blue hue. |
- Secondary color - pigment or paint hue that results from |
combining equal parts from two different primary colors, |
resulting in green, purple, and orange. |
- Combine - to mix or blend into one. |
PROCEDURES |
INTRODUCTION: Display a yellow piece of paper, and ask the students what |
color they think they see. After the correct response has been |
determined, flip the piece of paper over to reveal the word "yellow". |
Display the paper at the front of the classroom, easily locatable. Repeat |
this process with blue and red. Present the color wheel worksheet |
pointing out red, blue, and yellow. Identify these as primary colors. |
Ask the students how they think the colors green, orange, and purple will |
be made. Identify these as secondary colors. Repeat the process of |
displaying a piece of paper, and asking the students to identify its |
color. |
PUPIL ACTIVITY SEQUENCE |
1. Demonstrate how the students will split each color into three |
equal pieces. |
2. Give each student one small piece of red, yellow, and blue Play |
Doh (about the size of a cherry tomato). |
3. Hand out one color wheel worksheet to each student. |
4. Direct the students to press one piece of yellow Play Doh onto the |
worksheet, above the word "yellow". Repeat with blue and red Play |
Doh pieces. |
5. Ask the students to take one piece of yellow and one piece of blue |
and squeeze it | together until a new color forms. Do not tell the |
students what will happen; allow them to discover the process on |
their own. Ask them to press the new color (green) above the word |
"green" on the color wheel. |
6. Complete the rest of the color wheel by combining red and yellow |
to make orange, and blue and red to make purple. |
7. Allow Play Doh to dry for one or two days before students take |
their color wheels home. |
CLOSURE: Once the color wheels are complete, review the names of the |
colors by pointing to each name and asking for a group response. Ask what |
two colors make-up green? orange? purple? Ask what three colors are |
called primary colors? secondary colors? |
EVALUATION: The students will individually be asked to name the primary |
and secondary colors. The teacher will visually check completed color |
wheels for the correct placement of all Play Doh colors. |
MATERIALS/PREPARATION: |
- Color wheel worksheets |
- One container each of red, yellow, and blue Play Doh (for 25 |
students) |
- One piece of construction paper in red, yellow, blue, orange, |
purple, and green. Label each piece of paper with proper its |
proper name. |
CLEAN-UP: Collect color wheels when students have completed them. Wipe down tables. |
EXTENSIONS: |
- Mix colored water together. |
- Read Dr. Seuss' My Many Colored Days book |
- Take a walk out to the playground and identify all primary and |
secondary colors seen along the way. |
REFERENCE: Lynn, Lois Ann. Mixing Primary - Secondary Colors. Internet |
site:gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70/00/Lesson/Subject/Miscellaneous/cecmisc.39. |