Color Mixing Warm-Up: Handprints

For a warm-up to painting color wheels, a way to get students messy on their second day of class, and to familiarize them with the procedures of the art room we started with mixing colors on our hands! Fifth grade students worked on collaborative color wheels at their tables printing primary color and mixing and print secondary colors. Sixth graders printed primary, secondary, and intermediate colors on a large paper in the hallway. This was a new lesson we've never done before and was Miss Panaia's (Mrs. Teem's student teacher) great idea. Thanks Miss Panaia, we loved it!