Third grade color wheels

The first lesson for third grade students is on color theory. Students create their own color wheel using colors found in old magazines. The final product is full of so many variations of color and I love the results! This year the color wheels were turned into hot air balloons... Next year we will turn them into something different!

Color Theory Trees

After a quick refresher on the color wheel, my 8th grade students whipped out these BEAUTIFUL trees that I had to share!! I am so impressed, they remind me of stained glass art!

 

Students first drew their tree outline in pencil, and had to use all 12 colors from the color wheel to fill in the negative spaces.  The last step was painting their trees black.  They were very happy with the results!