![]() ![]() Start by having them choose their paint colors before you pour, unless you want to just simplify by giving them all the same colors. Purple in dark shade and light shade, greens, light pink, gray, light yellow Lesson Instructions Optional colors if you want to let them have a few more choices: Acrylic paints in the following colors: Red, orange, yellow, hot pink, black, navy or dark blue, turquoise, light blue, white and gold.Sun and Moon Paintingįor a maximum art experience, and if you have enough time, have the kids each make their own sun and moon drawing.įor painting the canvas your students will need: I recommend putting down a disposable table cloth on the table they will be painting on and having them wear a cover up as well. Now, use the transfer paper and line up both it and the tracing paper over the blank canvas, then trace the image so it transfers on to it. (If you only are teaching 2 or 3 kids, this step may not be worth your time, and it might be easier to just draw all of them on the canvases yourself.) Next, use tracing paper and trace your design on it so that you can easily duplicate it for the rest of them. Add triangular shapes for the points on the sun side. ![]() Then, draw in an eye on both and a mouth line. I made my center line wavy to represent a nose on both the sun and the moon, but that part is up to you. If you feel worried about this, start with a circle and divide it in half. If you will only focus on the cool or warm colors or have limited time, you can prepare the sun and moon drawings and have the students only do the coloring.Ĭanvases or canvas boards (which are less expensive but work just as well, they just don’t have the wooden base inside of them.)ĭraw the first example on one canvas until you get it the design you want. So once you have covered this, you can go on to the painting part of the class and you will want to have the canvases or canvas boards, whichever you choose, already traced for them if possible, so they don’t end up spending time drawing too long, or stressing out about getting it right, and miss out on the color part, which is the point of the lesson. This is where the sun and moon painting comes into play. Describing the colors of fire helps illustrate the warm ones, where the night sky helps illustrate the cool ones. It falls in the middle.Īlso, cover pink, it would tend to be a warm color, like in a sunset. Green can go either way truly, depending on the shade of it, so a bright spring green is more on the warm side where a darker green is on the cooler one. Then, go over the basics – Warm colors are going to be red, orange, yellow shades, and cool are going to be blue and purple shades. Then, I asked them things like, “If I say to picture the color red, what temperature would it bring to your mind?” or asking them to tell me what colors are in nature and what temperature they think those colors would be. I started my lesson for all the age groups I teach, which covers preschool all the way through seven and eighth graders, by asking if they had learned it before, and if so, what they remembered about it. If they are older, use it as a refresher and to show them how to use it as a tool when creating their own artworks. If the kids you are teaching are younger, like preschool to say, kindergarten, first grade, it will likely be the first time they’ve heard it, so I would just ask them and if they do know about it, use that to help you teach the lesson by asking them questions as you teach. Tips on How to Teach Warm and Cool Colors and Differences Most schools that have art classes will have taught this at some point, but if it is not used regularly, they may have forgotten it. Whether it is just your own children in a homeschool class, or a whole group, there are some basic things you will want to cover,whether it be right away, or just sometime in your year. One thing to know first is who your class is and how much art they have had prior to your teaching them. ![]() Teaching kids’ art lessons in the home, or in a classroom can really sound like more of a daunting task than it is. This sun and moon painting tutorial is one of the best projects when it comes to teaching the kids about warm and cool colors and the end result will always fill them with pride. Explore warm and cool colors with this Sun and Moon Painting art lesson. ![]()
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