Primary Colored Vases with Secondary Colors Shining Through

2nd & 3rd Grade

This was a great lesson for all. Students learned how to create symmetrical vases. We looked at actually bottles and analyzed their forms. We talked about the "lip of the bottle, the neck and the base." Students folded a piece of tracing paper in half vertically and traced half their vase. Students then traced through the paper to create the other side of their vase. Students transferred different vases, making sure to overlap them. Then came the exciting painting lesson! Students painted their first vase red, left the overlap blank in between, and painted their second vases yellow. Each student mixed their own orange and filled the overlap between the vase. The students painted their vases the primary colors and mixed the secondary colors for the parts of the vases that overlapped. After the paint was dry students decorated their vases using a different types of lines.