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First graders have been experimenting with color and color mixing in several media, starting with tissue paper, then reading Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh and making overlapping apple prints with primary colored tempera paints. To further explore and contextualize this learning, this week we used model magic to create physical color wheels, introduced through reading Leo Lionni's Little Yellow and Little Blue together. This process is great for visual and tactile learners, and manually mixing balls of primary colors into secondary colors is great for motor skills (and lots of fun)! After creating their own color wheels, students got to mix the rest of the colors together and make unique browns, which sparked a conversation about color ratios. They used their resulting brown clay to create sculptures to take home. Here are some of the moments of color mixing delight:
