2nd Grade YUMMY value ice cream and emotive color poems!!!

Oct 1, 2015

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In 2nd Grade art, we have just finished up our super fun and colorful value ice cream collages. The students learned about value scales, tints and shades, and painted their own value scale using a color and either white or black paint. After the paint dried, the students collaged a super-decker ice cream cone inspired by the sweetness of Wayne Thiebaud. They set out to add details to their cone that reinforced their chosen flavor, and were asked to create brand new names for their sugary creations! (Somehow, I don't think Ben and Jerry's will be fast to create a tarantula flavored ice cream :) Love these!

In addition to learning about color and value, we explored the different ways that colors can make us FEEL or REMIND us of things. I shared with them how the color BLUE- like the beautiful sky blue we see most days in Tucson- reminds me of my grandpa. My first bike was a sky blue Huffy (with a banana seat that had- wait for it- clouds on it!) My grandpa taught me how to ride that bike (something I STILL love to do.) When I see that color, I think of him.

I encouraged the kids to think about a color that had meaning for them. How does red FEEL? What does blue SMELL like? After we discussed this, we wrote a short poem about our color on the absloutely free color samples I have been snagging eachtime I travel to the home improvement store. These were so fun!

First our ice cream cones, then the poems.... Enjoy!!!