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What's Your Color Story?

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Lesson Plan

Color Journey Outline

Students will explore personal connections to color through mixed-media art, enhancing self-expression and visual literacy.

This lesson is important because it helps students understand how colors can represent emotions, experiences, and identity, fostering deeper self-awareness and creative communication.

Audience

4th Grade Class

Time

60 minutes

Approach

Hands-on art creation and reflective writing.

Materials

Discovering Color Stories (slide-deck), Palette Collage Creation (activity), Color Reflection Prompts (journal), Share Your Hue (cool-down), Construction paper (various colors), Old magazines, newspapers, fabric scraps, Glue sticks, Scissors, and Markers, crayons, colored pencils

Prep

Gather Materials

15 minutes

Step 1

Color Associations

5 minutes

  • Begin by asking students: "What color do you feel today and why?"
  • Encourage a few students to share their responses briefly.

Step 2

Discovering Color Stories

10 minutes

  • Use the Discovering Color Stories (slide-deck) to introduce the concept of "color stories" – how colors can represent feelings, memories, and ideas.
  • Discuss how artists use color to express themselves.
  • Show examples of how different colors evoke different emotions.

Step 3

Palette Collage Creation

30 minutes

  • Distribute the Palette Collage Creation (activity) handout.
  • Instruct students to create a mixed-media collage that tells their "color story."
  • Encourage them to think about colors that represent their personality, feelings, or important memories.
  • Provide access to various art materials (construction paper, magazines, fabric, etc.).
  • Circulate and offer guidance, encouraging creativity and self-expression.

Step 4

Color Reflection

10 minutes

  • Distribute the Color Reflection Prompts (journal).
  • Ask students to write about their collage, explaining their color choices and the story behind their artwork.
  • Encourage them to reflect on what they learned about themselves through this process.

Step 5

Share Your Hue

5 minutes

  • Use the Share Your Hue (cool-down) to facilitate a quick sharing session.
  • Have students briefly share one color from their collage and what it represents.
  • Conclude by emphasizing the power of color in personal expression.
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Slide Deck

What's Your Color Story?

How do colors speak to us?

Welcome students and introduce the theme of the lesson: exploring personal connections to color. Ask a warm-up question to get them thinking about colors and feelings.

Colors & Feelings

Colors can make us feel happy, calm, excited, or thoughtful. What colors make you feel a certain way?

Discuss how different colors can evoke different emotions. Ask students for examples.

Colors in Our Lives

Think about your favorite things: your clothes, your room, nature. What colors do you see most often?

Prompt students to consider colors present in their everyday lives and what they might represent to them personally.

Your Personal Palette

Today, we'll create art that shows your color story!

Explain that today's activity will involve creating a personal 'color story' through art.

Mixed-Media Magic

We'll use different materials like paper, magazines, and fabric to bring our color stories to life.

Briefly explain what mixed-media art is and show examples of the materials available for their collages.

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Activity

Palette Collage Creation

Objective: Create a mixed-media collage that tells your unique "Color Story."

Materials:

  • Construction paper (various colors)
  • Old magazines, newspapers, fabric scraps, yarn, glitter
  • Glue sticks
  • Scissors
  • Markers, crayons, colored pencils

Instructions:

  1. Choose Your Base Color: Pick a piece of construction paper that represents the overall feeling or main theme of your color story. This will be the background of your collage.

  2. Gather Your Palette: Look through the various materials (magazines, fabric, paper scraps). Cut out or tear pieces that represent different feelings, memories, or aspects of your personality. Think about:

    • What colors make you happy?
    • What colors remind you of a special place or person?
    • What colors show how you feel when you're calm or excited?

  3. Arrange and Create: Before gluing, arrange your chosen pieces on your base paper. Experiment with different placements until you like how your colors and textures come together to tell your story.

  4. Glue It Down: Once you are happy with your arrangement, carefully glue all the pieces onto your base paper. Make sure everything is securely attached.

  5. Add Details: Use markers, crayons, or colored pencils to add any extra details, lines, or patterns to your collage. This is your chance to make it truly unique!

Remember: There's no right or wrong way to tell your color story. Be creative and let your colors speak!

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Journal

Color Reflection Prompts

Use these prompts to think about the colors in your collage and the story they tell.

  1. What is the main color you chose for your collage? What does this color mean to you personally?





  2. What feelings or memories are connected to the colors you used in your artwork?










  3. If your collage could tell a story without words, what would it be about? How do the colors help tell that story?











  4. Did creating this collage teach you anything new about yourself or how you feel about certain colors?





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Cool Down

Share Your Hue

Take a moment to look at your beautiful color collage.

On an index card or a small piece of paper, write down:

  1. One color from your collage that you feel best represents you right now.
  2. One word that describes why that color represents you.

We will go around the room and share just these two things: your color and your word!




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