K-Elementary Vols.1-8 Sample

PREP NOTES FOR LESSON 2 You will need a variety of fruits or vegetables for your child to use as a reference. Look for colorful kitchen containers as well. Provide colorful dish towels or napkins to add more color to the picture. Allow each child to set up their own arrangement. ABOUT ACRYLIC PAINT You will need acrylic paint in the primary colors plus black and white. Other colors can be provided as well, especially if your child prefers to use a specific color. Acrylic paints offer modern color pigments including bright pinks and purples. You may want to purchase special colors for the child that is fond of bright pinks, purples, or teals, because those colors cannot be mixed by using the primary colors. Your child’s color mixing results may look different from those shown in the book because different reds, blues, and yellows have different properties. It is not important that your colors match what you see in the book, but it is of benefit to your children that they learn what their particular colors can do. Results will vary greatly, depending on the amounts of each color that are put into any mixture. When mixing two colors, it is best to start with the lighter of the two and add just a small amount of the darker color at a time. Continue to add the color until the desired mixture is obtained. Children should have their own paper plate palettes at each session where acrylic paint is used. Paints that have been squeezed out cannot be saved and the paper palette allows for easy clean up, in contrast to a plastic palette that you would need to wash out after each session. Acrylic paint is a plastic medium. This means that it will dry in the brushes as a hardened plastic that cannot be washed out. Do not let this happen! Remind your children to rinse the brushes in a water container as they paint and every time they want to change colors. Before brushes are stored, rinse their brushes with room temperature water and soap. Any type of dishwashing soap or hand soap will work. OUTSIDE THE HOME ENVIRONMENT When instructing a group outside the home environment, purchase large bottles of acrylic paint. Use inexpensive white paper plates as palettes for each student, which can save clean up time by discarding rather than cleaning. When teaching in a group setting, provide a variety of fruit, vegetables, pots, and colorful cloths. If you have plenty of items on hand, you may want to allow the students to work in teams to set up their own still lifes. Train students to wash their own brushes, but, with acrylic paints, always give the brushes a final wash with soap before storing them.

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