Purple galaxies, orange skies
Having joined the staff at Buddings only earlier this year, I experienced my first-ever Halloween with the kids this fall – and it was glorious! (There are photos from the party on the blog.) The best thing about it for me was having the opportunity to plan all the spooky arts and crafts for Big Kids’ Club.
We had finished examining our primary colours in September, so for October, our Big Kids’ Club Colour Theory class, has moved on to secondary colours. The exciting thing about them is that secondary colours can be created by mixing together two different primary colours. For instance, many shades of purple can be created by mixing blues and reds in different concentrations.
I introduced the idea of mixing colours with a book called Mix It Up by Herve Tullet.
It was a fun one where each page would instruct the kids to turn the page upside down or shake it from left to right so that the colours would “mix”.
Shown here is a page from the book.
By the time we were done, the kids were pretty excited for the colour mixing project I had planned for them…
During Purple week, the kids got to try it out first-hand for themselves with red and blue food colouring, which they used to paint some coffee filters.
The coffee filters would absorb the food colouring, mixing and creating unpredictable shades.
Our finished product? The kids turned the coffee filters into beautiful sun-catcher galaxies! Check out the lovely colours when they catch the sunlight!
I (strategically, I thought) planned Orange week to be the Wednesday before Halloween.
The kids painted lovely sunset skies with shades of orange, the perfect background for the spooky castle silhouettes that they glued over top.
Take a look at some of these scary landscapes!
Next up in BKC Colour Theory, we will be looking at complementary colours and how we can incorporate those into different art projects. Stay tuned!
