Art & Nature Unit || Week 4 of 6 || Colour Theory & Painting

Week 4 of 6- A no-prep lesson that explores colour theory, mixing paint and the art of impasto painting. Children in grades 1-3 will learn which colors mix together to create others, in addition to monochromatic, analogous and complementary color schemes. A perfect art unit for Autumn, Spring or Summer!

This product contains a 19-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guides students through previous weeks’ learning (watercolours, critiquing peers’ work, photography basics) and develops their art foundation knowledge by looking at colour theory. Children will be introduced to new vocabulary such as primary, secondary, evoke, emotion, analogous, monochromatic, complementary and Impasto.

This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on the ability to use paint and to explore colour, in addition to improving digital literacy skills, using QR codes to access digital quizzes and to conduct research.

This lesson is likely to take 2-3 hours, and requires the use of worksheets (included) printed onto card, paintbrushes, pallets, water pots and pencils for writing. iPads to aid digital aspects are suggested but not necessary.

This product contains 7 activities, including:

• ‘What do we remember from last week?’ talk-partner activity
• An outline of colour theory with new vocabulary underlined for discussion
• Colour mixing activity with hyperlinks within the teaching PowerPoint
• QR code-linked digital activity hosted on WordWall©
• Colour wheel painting worksheet with sentence-filling activity
• Colour mixing worksheet with penmanship activity
• Bonus extension task focused on impasto technique

This download includes:

• A 19-slide Teaching PowerPoint
• ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT
• Outline of the planning
• 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents
• PDF versions of worksheets to aid printing