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Thinking sheet · Art and artists
Warm and Cool Twins
Draw the same picture twice: once in warm colors and once in cool colors. How does each one feel?
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Art and artists
- Kids practice
- warm and cool colors, mood in art, comparing
What kids do
“Same drawing, two moods. Use only warm colors on one and only cool colors on the other.”
- Warm: reds, oranges, yellows
- Cool: blues, greens, purples
- The warm one feels like…
- The cool one feels like…
How to run it
- Sort the crayons into a warm pile and a cool pile first.
- Keep the picture simple so there is time to color both.
- Hold them side by side and ask the class which is which.
Talk about it
- Which one looks like summer? Which looks like night?
- Is green warm or cool? Can it be both?
- Which one would you hang in your room?
Take it further
Draw a hot desert in cool colors and a snowy hill in warm colors. Does it still work?
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