1. SWBAT invent, discover and create new colors with confidence.
2. SWBAT use a limited color palette to create an array of colors.
3. SWBAT identify mixing formulas.

1. Color Challenge Handout
2. Small Paint brush
3. Water cups
4. Tempera cakes or liquid tempera
5. Newspaper
6. Overhead projector
7. Magazines
8. Paint wells/palettes

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1. Introduce Painting Center
- Discuss Element of Art: Color and Value
2. (Optional) Show the Scratch Garden YouTube Video: Color Song. A good quick review of color families.
3. Handout Color Challenge Sheet
- I prefer to do 50 colors but it can be adapted to 100.
4. Teacher Demonstration
- Students will be using primary colors with the addition of black and white to create at 50 different colors.
- Show how to use a magazine as a mixing palette
- When the page is full, simply tear
off the sheet & throw away and its
ready to go. (It saves from
washing out painting palettes,
love it!)
- Mix a few examples for students to see
5. Students begin activity
- To save on time during class I have already pre-poured primary and neutral colors into paint wells.
- One per table
6. Students take two days to finish
- 40-50 minute class periods
7. This can be done with 2nd-6th graders.
- 2nd graders I like to have them partner up and collaborate on their challenge sheet

*Tip: Print handouts on medium to heavy paper to prevent bleeding and tears
*Early finishers? Challenge them to create names for each of their new colors
*I run a TAB classroom (Teaching for Artistic Behavior) BUT this can be used in any type of art room from traditional to choice!

Students will fill out an exit slip.

*This is not an original idea and would like to give credit to Kateri Aris Gill-at The Awakened Artist: A Choice-Based Art Classroom.
*I have adapted it for use in my own classroom.

Color/Value

Painting

Center checkout.docx
50 Color Challenge.pdf