4th Grade Color Wheel/Line Designs - Diversity Event

Our district is hosting a Celebrate Diversity event in January 2015, and has asked for artwork to be displayed from the elementaries. My grade 4 students usually open the school year with a line design/pattern project and some sort of color wheel review. This year, I tried to kill three birds with one stone, so to speak. After reviewing patterns and line designs, we painted with watercolors (reviewing the color wheel and color mixing). Then, we talked about images that symbolized peace, diversity, unity and added those to the centers of our "wheels." 

Idea tweaked from a Pinterest post - HERE

Plain Organized: Warm and Cool Colors

This year, I am really trying to drive home the concept of warm and cool colors with my grade 2 students (and remind the older ones). I made these posters after seeing a cute Pinterest post, and their size works well for many things. I got a hold of a pile of different color rubber laminate(?) pieces and glued magnets on their backs to make a sorting game. And, I use them to label supplies when I can!

Posters used in bins at one school - set out for kids to use

Posters with Johnsonite samples (magnets glued to the samples)

Scrap paper bins - Warm and Cool

Laminated paint swatches with magnets glued to the backs