Primary Hands

PRIMARY HANDS

Kindergarten learns about the Primary and Secondary Colors by creating their Primary Hands. 

To begin we trace our hands 6 or 7 times on a 12 x 18 inch piece of drawing paper.  Next, we outline our hands with red, yellow or blue (primary colors) oil pastels and color them in.  This usually takes us one 40 minute class. 

During the next class we talk about mixing the primary colors.  What happens when you mix red and yellow? Blue and yellow?  Red and blue?  We make new colors!  This is why the Primary Colors are so very important!  Because with them we make the Secondary Colors: green, purple and orange.

I give each student their own paints: two primary colors.  They each get to mix the paint and discover what new color they can make.  They paint around their Primary Hands with their Secondary Color.