Art Projects for Warm & Cool Colors
Students should understand warm and cool colors when working with art projects. Teach the children about the difference between warm and cool colors by explaining that warm colors are like the sun; red, orange and yellow. Cool colors are like the sea; blue, purple and green. Discuss mood and season with the children. Art projects that use these colors will help children remember the difference.
Other People Are Reading
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Magazine Cut-Out Windows
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Give four pieces of paper to each student. Have the students take two of the sheets of paper and cut a square on the folded side, so when they open it, the paper will have a window in the middle. Allow a couple of inches along the sides of the paper to create a frame. Ask the children to write "warm" on one piece of paper and "cool" on the other piece of paper below the windows. Distribute magazines and have students go through the books and cut out pictures that remind them of cool things and warm things. The students will paste these swatches in a collage on the sheets of paper that don't have the window. Cool colors go on one paper and warm colors go on the other paper. After the children are finished, they can paste the corresponding "window" papers over the collages.
Shapes That Pop
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Prepare a piece of paper with a grid of squares, each dissected at a diagonal so the paper is filled with diagonal triangles. Make enough copies for each student. Ask students to draw an outline of a shape. This can be a large leaf, a cup, a dog or whatever they want. It should fill most of the paper with only one row of boxes left blank to frame the picture. The children should then decide whether they want the background to be warm colors and the shape cool colors, or visa versa. Ask the children to choose two warm colors and two cool colors from their markers or crayons. Children who choose warm to be the background should start in one corner of the background and color the left half of the square one color, and the right half the second color. He should to do the same with all the background squares. Then, he will color the front shape with the two cool colors.
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Name Echoes
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Have children write their names in the center of a large piece of paper. With a ruler, have the students draw a line that goes through the name at any angle and ends at the edges of the paper. Ask the children to draw lines around the name that follow the dips and turns of the letters. They will continue to draw bigger and bigger echo shapes around their names until the page is filled with a squiggly pattern of lines. Tell the students to pick three warm colors and three cool. On one half of the dissecting line that goes through the name, color the pattern in alternating cool colors. Do the same on the other side of the line.
Foam Core Sculptures
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Give the children several pieces of painted or colored foam core in different colors. Ask them to make a "cool" sculpture and a "warm" sculpture. They should cut the pieces into straight-edged shapes like diamonds and squares and cut a thin notch in each piece that extends from one edge and about half-way down the middle of the shape. Fit the pieces together by sliding one notched piece over another to build a three-dimensional sculpture. Make a sculpture of an item representative of the cool or warm colors used.
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