Pattern High Five

This is a great colored pencil project. We started with a plain piece of paper that had a 1/2" grid on it  with diagonal lines through each square in the grid. You can kinda get an idea of what it looked like by looking at the pictures. I had the students draw on the back of the paper (the blank side), so they could still see the grid through the paper, but the finished product didn't have all of those distracting lines.

First, Students lightly traced their hand somewhere on the page. Then they chose a pair of complementary colored pencils to work with. One color would be for the hand and the other for the background. In each 1/2" square, there are 2 triangles. They were instructed to color the bottom one darker by pressing harder and the top one lighter by pressing more lightly with their colored pencil. This is a time consuming project, but it turns out amazing!

This student is about half-way done

This student got very creative and fit 2.5 hands and used 3 pairs of complementary colors:)

Complimentary Color Op Art

After a lesson on Op art and a review of complimentary colors, I introduced this challenging project to my 2nd graders. They got to practice using rulers and alternating complimentary colors.

Complmentary Color Turn About

This project was used as part of a color unit for my 3rd graders. They each made theirs with their choice of a complimentary color pair. They also got practice with cutting multiple pieces of paper at the same time. I got the idea for this from this book.