Get Green

Little Lassies and Laddies ages 15-36 months gathered around with me at the OKCMOA this weekend to experiment with the color green. We talked about the color green and I gave a little demo on how to make it by mixing blue and yellow paint on a paper plate.

We went through the gallery and found green stripes, circles and squares. In the classroom we used different methods to duplicate some of the same ideas.

Each child started with yellow and blue tempera paint on a paper plate. They used a paintbrush to mix their own shade of green. They applied this color to their papers with the brush. As they began to use up their color I gave everyone a bit of a dark kelly green and white. Now we mix more green.



We used circle sponges, shamrock stamps and detergent lids to stamp our papers. I love to let kids experiment with different items when painting. To finish we added a bit of Leprechaun gold! Here are some of our creations!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

You will need:
-Watercolor paper
-Tempera paints (blue, yellow, green and white)
-Paintbrush
-Sponge
-Detergent Lid
-Shamrock stamps (I made mine using foam stickers)
-Gold Glitter

Little Leprechauns

It was a fine couple of classes at the OKCMOA on Saturday morning to celebrate the coming of St. Patrick's Day. My little leprechauns ages 15-36 months arrived wearing green and were ready to visit the galleries and create! I began the class by inviting the kids to come sit on a big piece of green paper to read our story, The Luckiest St. Patrick's Day Ever.
After that I had a color experiment ready to demonstrate. I squeezed yellow and blue paint on a paper plate and talked about making green. I grabbed my paintbrush and slowly mixed the colors and OOH! AAH! Green!

Green was our color of the day and we visited the 3rd floor gallery to find the color of green in many shades and shapes. The final piece we looked at was a sculpture from the Vogel Collection that had a shamrock on it. It was an I spy object and was a good finishing moment to bid the gallery goodbye and head back down to the classroom to create our St. Patrick's Paintings.

I had paper plates with blue and yellow paint ready for the kids to mix with a paintbrush and put down on their paper. The fun part about this was to watch the different colors of green the toddlers made. Some was more yellow, some more blue. This made each piece even more unique.

Then I gave everyone a squeeze of kelly green paint and a small sponge. I like for the children to see that we can paint with different things and for ones this small it helps cover the paper a bit faster.

Our final color was white. I gave everyone a small amount of white paint and a feather to use to apply it. Everyone LOVED the feather. I used a more stiff craft feather-I found them at Walmart but I am sure you can get them anywhere.



To finish our St. Patty Paintings we used some leprechaun dust. I found shamrock, pot of gold, and star glitter at Michael's Craft Store. We sprinkled that on to complete our pieces! So much fun!

You will need:
-student grade watercolor paper
-yellow, blue, green and white tempera paints
-brush
-sponge
-feather
-glitter

Here are some of our toddler creations!