Color Wheels

• Projects for primary grade students often focus on an introduction to visual arts. Younger children can make color wheels. Teachers will identify primary colors and explain how they can be mixed to create additional colors. Students can use standard paint to create their color wheels or they can use tinted red, blue, and yellow clay to create a color wheel. If children use clay, divide them into groups and give them a small circular piece of cardboard so they can arrange their clay balls.
  
  

Expressive Color

• This project is suitable for fouth and fifth grade students. Introduce students to color and explain how it can affect the mood of a painting. Read about Pablo Picasso's blue period and show the children how the blue paintings reflected his sadness. Name some emotions and ask students what colors they would associate with them. Then distribute paper and assorted paint colors. Play various songs and ask students to use brush strokes and color to mirror how the music makes them feel. Share the pictures and let students indicate why they created their painting.
  
  

Art Reflecting Cultures

• Introduce middle-school students to art created by different cultures. Provide students with a selection of books about cultures and their artwork. Divide students into groups. Let each group write a short report about the type of art that is popular in a particular culture. Students can draw or find pictures of the art and explain how it is unique. They can present their information to the class. During presentations, students can prepare a comparison chart of the cultures and their types of art,
  
  

Marketing Art

• High school students can apply marketing skills to artistic events in the school. Divide students into groups. Make a list of school related art events.These can include musical plays, concerts, dances or assemblies involving the arts. Assign each group one event. Show students posters marketing art events. Then ask them to think about why classmates would want to attend an event and encourage them to design posters and brochures marketing a school art event.