Watercolor Rainbows

Watercolor Rainbows artwork is a win win situation. It is easy, simple and fun to paint a watercolor rainbow and the end result is beautiful.

We made rainbows because of the letter ‘R’. Using the Starfall website we watched the letter sound ‘R’ animation and rainbow was one of them.

After some discussion, knowledge sharing, talking about our experiences with rainbows and looking at books with rainbows we decided to make our own. 

The students already knew how to work with watercolor paint so the technique was not a problem. To help them know which colors to use I projected a rainbow on the white board and I also made a model with their help. The key clue is to tell the students to start painting the rainbow at the bottom with the purple.

Here is the result. Twenty-two beautiful rainbows!

Today the students shared their rainbows with the whole group and they all received a well deserved round of applause. They were proud of their work as they should be.

The students decided to put their work in their portfolios.

Amelia Mello, M.Ed.

Watercolor Question Marks

To introduce question marks to the students I read the book Cat’s Colors by Jane Cabrera, which is the story of a cat asking you what his favorite color is. It is also a great book to work with colors.  

I traced a question mark similar to the one in the book and the students used watercolors to paint them.

They turned out so beautiful.

I cut and assembled them using tape on the back to hold the parts together,  

and another piece of tape in front so the sticky part wouldn’t stick anywhere else.

As a whole group we discussed if asking questions is a good thing. We came to the conclusion that we learn more if we ask questions.  We turned that conclusion into a question. After we used our question marks we decided to blue tack them on a board. Why? The answers were varied. Because they look so nice, because they are beautiful and colorful and because we can look at them to remember to ask more questions!

I modeled asking questions holding my question mark and some students wanted to do the same.

I traced the question marks on A3 watercolor paper but you can do on A4 paper, which is the size of the model below.

click here to download the file

Amelia Mello, M.Ed.

Watercolor eggs

For the letter of the week “E” the students painted eggs with watercolor to find the hidden word. They found it more exciting than I had predicted. Then they asked me to paint the other side.