Color Mix Ladybugs

First grade students learned the important skill of color mixing. On the first day, we talked about primary colors and how these colors can not be made from other colors. We reviewed how to make the secondary colors of green, orange and violet (purple) by mixing two primary colors. Next we set to work on our ladybugs. The body would indicate what secondary color we wanted to create and the wings would indicate the two primary colors that would combine to make that secondary color. We created at least three flowers next to each ladybug with a black sharpie.

On the second day of instruction, the first-grade artists learned how to use a paint palette and how to wash our brush every time we switched colors. (No double dipping!) We practiced mixing our secondary colors and painted the flowers to match and  added other details.