Rainbow Craft

For this lesson, we learned about primary and secondary colors; we also learned about the artist Wassily Kandinsky. We then had to mix primary colors together to make secondary colors for our rainbow. Then we took a sponge and created a rainbow with the primary colors and the secondary colors we made by dabbing and painting with a sponge. We also had to paint a landscape of whatever we wanted using the primary and secondary colors. After we painted the landscape and it dried, we then glued our rainbow onto the landscape. I really liked this lesson because it let students be creative by choosing whatever landscape they wanted and then creating it. I really love baseball and softball so I chose a field as my landscape.

An extension activity that could be done with this lesson is creating a whole scene instead of just a landscape. This was a craft unit so we could create a whole scene by adding people or animals or other things with material such as construction paper and then the students could write a story about what is happening in their scene.