Project #7 Pebble Painting

This project was designed as a fun way to introduce second graders to primary and secondary colors. To begin, students lined shoe boxes with a white piece of construction paper. Next students chose one of three sized pebbles and one of three primary paint colors. The pebble was dropped in the chosen color and a spoon was used to take out the pebble along with a small abount of paint placing it on a corner of the paper in the shoe box. After the lid was placed on the shoe box, the students shook the box as little or as much as they wanted as the pebble left unique markings on the paper inside the box. This process was repeated with the other 2 primary colors. To make a secondary color, the process was repeated with the exception of adding another spot of primary-colored spot of paint for a total of 2 spots. The pebble then moved through both primary colors making a secondary color as the box was shook. Students then made a stencil of basic shapes from construction paper and used the stencils to cut shapes from the dry painted papers. Finally the shapes featuring the pebble painting were glued to a large sheet of construction paper. I would use this project as an extension activity possibly after a fall class walk outdoors in which students could collect pebbles along with multicolored fall leaves. We could then use the pebbles along with the primary colors to create various "fall colored" leaf shapes that could be used as a

backdrop for a fall bulletin board.