Color My Feelings!Use color to express how you

are feeling!

Resources by grade level: Learn how to express your feelings with color!

• Kindergarten & First grade students watch In My Heart: A Book of Feelings video.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIfLgHBwYx4

• Second & Third grade students go to Art History Kids, Exploring Colors & Emotions in Paintings.

• https://www.arthistorykids.com/blog/2016/8/30/exploring-colors-and-emotions-in-paintings

• Fourth & Fifth grade students go to Arty Factory, Color Theory – Color as Emotion.

• https://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/color_theory_3.htm

• https://www.artyfactory.com/perspective_drawing/perspective_index.html – this is an optional link about Perspective.

• Optional: Second – Fifth grade may enjoy watching In My Heart: A Book of Feelings video.

Color My Feelings! Examples

Idea: Wassily Kandinsky

Paint to music in the style of Wassily

Kandinskyhttps://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-

editorial-artist-kandinsky

Idea: Intuitive or Mindful Artby Katherine Simdon

Directions: Now get creative!• 1. Think about how you are feeling: happy, excited, bored, sad, etc. and decide how you can show that feeling in an artwork.• 2. The choices are endless: choose one of the example formats in this PowerPoint (p. 3); paint or draw to music that expresses

your feelings like Wassily Kandinsky (p. 4); choose a word that describes your feelings and create artwork incorporating the word, or…• 3. The artwork can be realistic (something we see and can name) or abstract (does not represent images of our everyday

world; uses line, shape & color to express emotions like Kandinsky).• 4. Use any medium or material: drawing (crayons & markers), painting, collage, (glue pieces of material), or digital art (use the

free software FireAlpaca for computer or ArtStudio App for iPad – see the DTES art webpage ”Student Resources” for links).• 5. Take a picture of your creation.• 6. Go to the next page for an optional Art Challenge!

OPTIONAL Art ChallengeKindness Rocks!

• Celebrate Earth Day (April 22) by spreading art & kindness with rock painting!

• Click on the site below to get started!

• https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-inspiration/spreading-art-kindness-rock-painting/

• Extension:

• Get your whole family involved in creating Kindness Rocks.

• Hide them in your neighborhood for others to find, spreading joy to those around you!