A Color for Every Hour of the Day

First of all, I hope everyone is staying warm! We don't have school again tomorrow because of how cold it is. I don't know if I mentioned it, but we haven't had a full week since before Christmas break. Either because of snow, ice, cold, or other holidays. At this point I can say that I'm ready to be in the class room for a full week. Snow days are nice once in awhile as a surprise to lighten your week. However, I am all caught up on extra work and ready to be teaching those kiddos some art! We did have school today so let me catch you up.

Here's an update on the clay bowls and spoons that the fourth graders are working away at industriously. They are glazing and doing an excellent job, with only a few students forgetting and painting the bottoms of their bowls :) Here are some images of them glazing up a storm.

But what I want to focus on in this post are the wonderful Color Wheel Clocks that our third graders have finished. It was quiet the process. We reviewed color theory and learned some new things about Intermediate Colors as well. We spent a whole class period reviewing how to use a ruler and learning how to use a protractor, (look Geometry in 3rd grade! Math and Art!) in order to divide our circles up evenly. Then using only yellow, blue, and red, students mixed and painted a twelve section color wheel! They were fabulous!

That finished, they outlined and numbered the twelve sections to resemble a clock. This part was a little tricky considering that the numbers some times turned out upside down. Everyone had to be sure to keep the color wheel still and not rotate it while writing the numbers. The 12 always had to be right side up!

I spent some time laminating and all that was left was to put on the clock mechanism.

Each mechanism came with the parts that were needed. They were left over from the pervious art teacher so I'm not sure where they came from, but they were easy to figure out. Students were given a cardboard circle to go behind the clock for extra support. Each clock had a hour, minute, and second hand, all battery operated with on AA battery. So far we've gotten great reports from students that they are hanging on their walls and ticking away!