Providing my 2nd and 3rd grade students the opportunity to learn about how to make secondary colors out of the three primaries using hands on mixing and mashing of "clay" was a blast. I've never seen so many smiles and excitement!
On each table was a tray with a ball of red, yellow, and blue Crayola Model Magic for each child, as well as a square of white paper and pencils to write their name on it. First, I showed the kids these two videos:
Ok Go: Primary Colors - a great stop motion animation about color mixing
Little Blue and Little Yellow - a wonderful claymation adaptation of the Leo Leonni book
Afterward we talked a little about the videos and they shared what they learned and know about mixing the secondary colors.
Next I demonstrated how to separate their blobs into two and make a triangle on their white paper using the three primaries:
After that, they were to separate the remaining halves into two in order to mix their secondaries (green, purple, orange) and then add them to their color wheels (or color triangles they often ended up with which was fine with me!).
Once they showed me they had successfully produced the three secondaries and place them in the correct order on their papers, they were encouraged to remove their clay and make a sculpture of anything they could think of!
Some chose to just play around with their colors and mix them all together while making their sculpture…
While others used the colors separately to make their sculptures…
This was such a fun activity and the kids got to take their clay home at the end of the day. I asked them if they would email pictures of their finished sculptures to me and here are two that were so great!
This is an activity you could easily do with your whole class or even just at home with your kids - have fun!
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