Kindergarten Color Mixing Grapes

Kinders are exploring color mixing and primary/secondary colors. I sang a song about fruits and vegetables: "Five a day, eat five a day,we all know it's the healthy way. Fruits and vegetables, they're okay! The healthy way is five a day."  Fruits like grapes keep us healthy!  We traced a baby food jar lid to create some grapes. We used overlapping to create space. The circles were traced with a black crayon. We looked at photographs of grapes on the vine and talked about how the vine needs a fence to support it. They used brown and green crayons to add their grape vine. We used watercolors to paint our grapes red and then blue. "I made purple! I made purple!" exclaimed many of the kindergarten artists. 

Red + Blue = Purple Grapes!

To finish this project, we painted the background yellow. I showed an image of a color wheel and introduced complementary colors. Using the Smartboard, we drew a line across the color wheel to find purple's complement: yellow! Complementary colors make each other POP! 

Project from Whitney Elementary's Artsonia page.