Fall Art, Fall Colors, Creating Colors

Leaf Rubbing.....Discussing what colors they should use..

Our discussion prior to our acorn stamping art.
Morah Mimi: We're going to create beautiful fall art today using these things in the basket as stampers.
Anyone remember what they are?
Aiden: Acorns!!!
Sammy: They're the squirrel's food!
Morah Mimi: That's right.  It would be nice to use fall colors.
What colors remind you of fall?
Hannah:  Purple...I love purple!
Jordan: I love blue!
Morah Mimi: Those are great colors.  Let's look outside to see what colors remind us of fall.
Hannah: Red
Jordan: Gold...Yellow
Chana: Brown
Sammy: Green
Amanda: Orange
Aiden: Red

Coming back to the table...
Morah Mimi takes our our primary color paints.  Let's see which colors we have.
We realize we still don't have green, orange, and brown.
Morah Mimi explained the idea of primary colors and how we use them to make new colors.
Together we hypothesize which colors will make orange.

We try it out.  We take red and blue but...it turns purple.
Hannah is excited because she wanted purple:)

......and then we figure it out.
We make all the colors.

Skills: Follow directions, grip the acorn, color blending

Following our acorn activity, the children began asking to create palettes of paint for their art creations.