Kindergarten Art

We had a fantastic class last week exploring the material of liquid watercolor. The students were inquisitive, engaged and showed fine control of the materials throughout the lesson. We had a short discussion about the primary colors and how they thought they could make all the other colors only using the 3 primary colors. Each student had 3 small cups each containing red, yellow and blue liquid watercolor with 3 pipettes. The students had a palette to mix their colors in and had to try and keep the primary cups clear and clean. This is very difficult at this age and every student ended with pure primary cups. I do not think that has ever happened in my 15 years of teaching! The room was focused and the students were so excited to share the colors they had mixed. The paintings were a simple grid design where they could showcase their colors and the few watercolor techniques in their work.  I really love when students get excited about mixing colors!