The children had the opportunity to create sketches of something they chose to represent in nature. This was a variety of different things. After the children presented their sketches to the group. They revisited to continue the next step of painting their sketches.
We started with small groups of two going to the circle table to start to paint their sketches. Chloe and Oli were the first ones.
They both had listed on the back of their paper what colors they would need. Logan came over to observe them and heard Trevor ask them about how they were going to make some of the colors listed.
Logan- Well, the primary colors are Red, Yellow, and Blue. And the secondary colors are green, purple, orange.
Chloe- I'm going to ask Grace! She's an expert at mixing colors.
We love how the children are using each other as support when they need help in their play and activities. This specific example shows how well Chloe knows her close friend Grace and what her expertise might be!
The most interesting part about Chloe's painting experience was how she used 1 jar to mix all of her colors. She started with yellow to paint her flowers. She then needed green for her grass and added a little blue to her jar. Next, she needed brown to represent the dirt above the grass. She added some red, more blue, and black to make brown.
For Oli, he mentioned how his flowers needed to be orange. There was a jar of orange paint already but before he started painting, Trevor recommended adding white to make a lighter shade of orange. Oli was excited to test it and ran with the idea!
We printed a color wheel for the children to reference while mixing their colors.
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