Kindergarten - Rainbow Collage

I've been tinkering with the approach to this one over the years, but the result has stayed the same.  This project is a good way to wrap up the color mixing we'd been doing the last couple weeks, and a good reminder of the the line vocabulary we'd talked about earlier in the year.  Kindergarteners mix a rainbow using only the primary colors, then cut it into pieces and glue it back together, leaving gaps to make black lines in the rainbow.  Take a look at some of the excellent examples:

2nd Grade - Rainbow Stencil

I've been experimenting with fun ways to incorporate color mixing in my classroom since the beginning, and this project has sort of stuck.  It's a two or three parter, where we first make a stencil or a shape or drawing and then trace it onto a strip of paper six times.  Then we use only the primary colors to get a rainbow into each shape.  It's simple and pretty direct, but a good painting project to close the year out for the second grade.

Kindergarten - Rainbow Collage

Kindergarten has been working on color for a big part of the quarter, and the unit culminates with this project.  Here, we fuse color and line together to make a rainbow collage, where the kids first color a rainbow using only the primary colors, then cut it up with different lines and glue it back together in sort of a puzzle.  It's a really cool effect that the kindergartners are really proud of.  Here are a few excellent examples.

Kindergarten - Rainbow Fish

Kindergartners continued to learn about colors by painting rainbow fish.  We drew a fish together, then painted rainbow stripes with watercolor.  We had a lot of excellent work by a lot of talented artists on this one!

Kindergarten - Rainbow Collage

Kindergarten students learned about the colors of the rainbow by making a collage out of paper torn from magazine and newspaper advertisements.  Special thanks to the 5th graders for tearing all the pieces of paper for the younger kids!