Exploring Colors In The Classroom with Ms. Stephanie!

In the beginning of my time in Mrs. Schimm’s class, I noticed that there was a lot of interest and questions about painting and mixing colors. I decided to use this for my lessons throughout the semester and go deeper into that with the students.

            We have explored with painting with different materials like sponges and leaves. The children have mixed all different kinds of colors when I only put out red, blue, yellow, and white paint. The children also love to share their ideas with their friends on how they made a certain color. We have had different discussions like “how do you make hot pink? Or “how do you make silver?” and we have experimented on how to make these colors.

            Recently we have painted with letter sponges, painted pumpkins, and painted self portraits. The children have been engaged and love to paint different pictures of their family, dinosaurs, animals, and lots of other things they see outside. Going forward we are going to work on painting with more details and continue to make new colors!