Secondary Colors Monster Trucks

Kindergarten students explored secondary colors along with line, shape and painting by creating these awesome monster trucks.  Students began by listening to the story, I Stink by, Kate and Jim McMullen to draw inspiration for making a monster truck.  Students worked on their trucks by  painting a rather large rectangle in the center of their paper followed by adding circles for wheels and more rectangles, squares and triangles for their trucks design. 

The next class, students used a secondary color, (green, purple or orange) to fill in their trucks and experimented with color value by switching to a new shade of color inside each shape of their truck.  While half the class was painting their trucks, the other half was experimenting with mixing primary colors to get their secondary color by using toy trucks to paint with.  It was so much fun!

Look at those wheel go!  Red + Blue = Purple!

Vroom vroom!  Yellow + Red = Orange

The last day was to put all the pieces together.  Students made a frame of black paper and yellow dotted lines to represent roads going around their art work.  Student then glued down tissue paper  to add some texture to their composition.  Lastly, students cut our their trucks and glued them onto the paper.