We spent some time experimenting with colour theory by using the three primary colours – red, blue, and yellow – to create some interesting looking variegated leaves. We used leaves cut out of special colour diffusing paper. On one of the leaves students coloured it with the three primary colours using food colours; with the other one they used Solucryl water colour paint. Most students enjoyed using the food colours better than the paints, with this particular paper.
These leaves are placed around the bulletin board in the hallway which holds our bat pictures. These bat pictures are the students’ third bat drawings. We initially did two directed drawings of the same bat on regular drawing paper. The students then created this same bat drawing on grey construction paper. They could then add some background details that would be found in the Fall.