It was 70º today! I figured it would be child abuse to keep the kids inside… to say nothing of art teacher abuse!!  We went outside and did a Color Wheel Treasure Hunt.  I printed out a simple circle divided into six sections.  We started class by coloring in the wheel and talking about primary and secondary colors.  We talked about “neutrals” and where they belonged on the color wheel.  We added the neutral colors to the area below our color wheels.

We took tape, scissors and our color wheels into my garden and found leaves, flowers, sticks, rocks, and anything else that wasn't “man-made" and added it to the appropriate places on the color wheel.

When we got back to the studio we looked at what we had gathered and noticed most of our specimens were on red and green.  Orange was really hard to find and so was blue.  Old dead leaves were good for grey, so were rocks. 

Everyone got to take their pictures home.  

...and... we took some time out to play Simon Says and Freeze Tag...  Hint... the art teacher never has to be it.   (She can't catch anyone).