DESCRIPTION: Students imagine that they become their favorite color and are then encouraged to discover their favorite colors in a work of art.

OBJECTIVES: Students identify colors in artworks and stop and look closely at individual works of art.

PROCEDURE: Think about your favorite color. Now close your eyes and be very quiet. think of your favorite color and pretend that you are becoming that color. Start with your toes. Oh! The color is slowly moving up your legs and now to your waist. Now, the color has moved all the way to your shoulders and now to the very top of your head. Your whole body has become your favorite color! What color are you? Do you think that people will be surprised to see that you have become another color?

Let's find our favorite colors in a work of art. Look carefully. Do you see your favorite color? Do you see your color in more than one place? Is your color making a shape? Is it making a line? Is it forming something that your recognize? If the artist changed the color, how would the artwork look different? What if the artwork changed to black and white, how would it look to you? Now let's look at all of the colors in the artwork and make a list of all the colors that we see.

MINNESOTA GRADUATION STANDARDS:
(1) Read, View, Listen
(2) Write and Speak
(3) Literature and the Arts

Age level: Appropriate for youngest visitors (K-2).
Artworks used: Paintings that contain a variety of colors.
Props needed: No props needed.
Related to Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: No


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