Lessons Tagged As primary colours

  • Turkey Napkin Art Example

    Art - Thanksgiving Turkey Napkins

    A little fabric paint and a little creativity, brushed on re-usable cloth napkins, makes a beautiful keepsake of each  child’s hand print that can be used every Thanksgiving. Objectives: grade 1’s learn about the elements … View Full Lesson →

  • Piet Mondrian Art

    Art - Piet Mondrian Art

    Objective: Learning about artists and imitating their work Using primary colours reviewing squares and rectangles (remind students that squares ARE rectangles, but rectangles CANNOT be squares) Materials: 8 1/2″ X 11″ white paper for each student … View Full Lesson →

  • Name Art

    Art - Name Art

    Practise using rulers to make straight lines…horizontal, vertical and diagonal in this pretty art activity.  Students use rulers and pastels to make their NAME a thing of linear beauty…literally!  Pastel coloring reinforces their knowledge of … View Full Lesson →

  • Art - C. M. Russell Art: Western Sunsets

    A beautiful sunset picture is created with paints, as a background for a simple black silhouette of mountains, trees, cactus, with perhaps a barn and cowboys. Easy art with gorgeous results for young students. View Full Lesson →

  • Art - Paul Gauguin (Go-gan) Art: Opposite Colour Masterpieces

    Landscapes are drawn with a horizon line, overlapping mountains, trees near and far, a stream or lake, and a sun, but they are coloured differently. Gauguin painted yellow skies, with orange grass and red mountains, and students follow this method of using opposing colours. What a fun twist on the normal! View Full Lesson →