1st Grade - Leaf Color Wheels

First graders began this lesson by painting a pre-folded piece of paper with the primary and secondary colors.  Many times I'll have the older students mix colors on a foam plate, but for this, I had them mix the secondary colors directly on the paper.  I was pleased with how well that worked.  Also, since we were working with tempera paint, I had them use magenta for red and turquoise for blue.  They mix much better than regular red and blue.

Next, they used one of the many beautiful fall leaves from outside and traced it on each of the 6 colors.  They also had to draw on the veins of the leaf after tracing.

They cut out the 6 leaves.

The final step was to glue the leaves in the correct color wheel order on the black circular piece of paper.