1. Docent Setup List: Docent Clean up List: Magical Color Wheel
You will need:
Little Blue and Little Yellow Book
3 balls of each primary color modeling clay
1 coffee filter (for end of lesson)
1 dropper (for end of lesson)
Give each table :
2-3 Texture plates and Rubber stamps
Color laces, scissors, Beads, Key rings etc.
1 tray of primary color water color
Docents either split the clay:
Give each student:
2 balls of red
2 balls of yellow (make these 2x size of red and blue ball)
2 balls of blue
NOTE: 1 large packet of each primary color will do more than 30 students OR HAVE STUDENTS DO THIS
Wipe down tables, refill any items and return to bins as you found them
Close the lens cap to turn the projector off
Send to parents about the lesson – thanks for doing this and leading the lesson!

2. Magical Color Wheel Kinder Grade Art@Booksin
Welcome in the students. State the lesson name.
You will need:
Little Blue and Little Yellow Book
3 balls of each primary color modeling clay
Based on feedback from last year there are 2 ways to approach this lesson: Docents either split the up the clay and Give each student:
2 balls of red
2 balls of yellow (make these 2x size of red and blue ball)
2 balls of blue
NOTE: 1 large packet of each primary color will do more than 30 students OR HAVE STUDENTS DO THIS
We have added in this last part so the lesson lasts the 60 mins.
At the end once the students have picked their beads and laces and you’ve bagged them up for another lesson where you’ll make up the pendant once its dried. Please give each student a coffee filter and dropper. Each table will get a tray of primary watercolors (these are food coloring watered down so please refill). In this last part you will have them drop colors to made secondary and tertiary colors. Leave to dry on racks. Watch they don’t over soak – literally a drop at a time of paint.

3. Today’s Lesson Skill Development:
Magical Color Wheel
Today’s Lesson
Skill Development:
Today you are going to learn about the primary colors and how they can be used to make all the colors in the color wheel.
Create 3D art piece
Introduction to color wheel
Mixing colors
Improve fine motor skills
New medium – modeling clay
Explain the lesson objective and description. We are focusing on Primary and Secondary colors today.

4. Magical Color Wheel
What is a color wheel?
It is the basic tool for combining colors. The first circular color diagram was designed by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666.
This is for info – too detailed for Kinder but the color wheel is designed so that virtually any colors you pick from it will look good together. Over the years, many variations of the basic design have been made, but the most common version is a wheel of 12 colors based on the artistic color model.
Traditionally, there are a number of color combinations that are considered especially pleasing. These are called color harmonies or color chords and they consist of two or more colors with a fixed relation in the color wheel.

5. What are the primary colors?
Magical Color Wheel
What are the primary colors?
These are the 3 colors that cannot be made from mixing other colors BUT …
all other colors can be obtained by mixing these 3!
Ask students if they know how mixing colors creates new colors?
Do they know Primary colors – red, yellow and blue
Do they know that when these are mixed they make what is known as Secondary colors – this will be demonstrated by docents or students.

6. What are the secondary colors?
Magical Color Wheel
What are the secondary colors?
These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors …
– let’s try it!
The secondary colors are achieved by mixing primary colors.
Before we move onto the practical – read ‘Little Blue and Little Yellow’. If students are restless skip reading the book and have the teacher read it to those students who finish early and are sat on the rug.
The next 3 slides will give students an opportunity to do this using their model magic and / or using the food color and water mixed the paint trays.
Docents please decide which method you will use to demonstrate this.
My plan is to demo using one paint tray and the food colors.
Then I will have the students mix the colors using their modeling clay. That will reinforce the lesson and keep hands occupied!!

7. Lets make Orange …. Magical Color Wheel Art@Booksin
Using their modeling clay have students mix: 1 red ball and one yellow ball until they have an orange ball.

8. Lets make Green …. Magical Color Wheel Art@Booksin
Using their modeling clay have students mix: 1 blue ball and one yellow ball until they have a green ball.

9. Lets make purple …. Magical Color Wheel Art@Booksin
Using their modeling clay have students mix: 1 blue ball and one red ball until they have a purple ball.
Another six tertiary colors are created by mixing primary and secondary colors, we will save that for another lesson! However now we are going to take that knowledge and have students create a leaf using their knowledge of mixing primary colors to make secondary colors.

10. Process to make pendant / key ring:
Magical Color Wheel
Process to make pendant / key ring:
Take ONE ball of model magic
Make an impression of the most interesting pattern to YOU by pressing the rubber stamp or texture plates until ball is flattened into a disc. Don’t press too hard
Repeat with all 3 colors of modeling clay
Docents, there is a simple YouTube overview of this lesson which is worth watching as its very short. Our materials are a bit simpler for cost reasons. The link to the video is:

11. Magical Color Wheel
Students decide what they would like to use their Sole Pendant as: a necklace, tie it on a book bag or as an ornament and therefore select the length of cord (short or longer).
Store these and beads in a bag for another lesson where you will make up the pendants
Put these and the pendants in blue trays (write name in sharpie on back) to air dry.
Docents, there is a simple YouTube overview of this lesson which is worth watching as its very short. Our materials are a bit simpler for cost reasons. The link to the video is:

12. Process to make Tertiary Colors:
Magical Color Wheel
Process to make Tertiary Colors:
Coffee Filter Art:
Now lets make art with primary, secondary and tertiary colors!
Students fill a small amount of paint in dropper
Drop colors to made secondary and tertiary colors. Leave to dry on racks.
Watch you don’t over soak – literally a drop at a time of paint.
We have added in this last part so the lesson lasts the 60 mins.
At the end once the students have picked their beads and laces and you’ve bagged them up for another lesson where you’ll make up the pendant once its dried. Please give each student a coffee filter and dropper. Each table will get a tray of primary watercolors (these are food coloring watered down so please refill). In this last part you will have them drop colors to made secondary and tertiary colors. Leave to dry on racks. Watch they don’t over soak – literally a drop at a time of paint.

13. Lesson plan adapted from mrsbrownsart.com
By Tara Button
September 2016, rewritten Sept 2017 (combining 2 previous lessons)