Little Green

Monster Bulletin Board

Materials:

• Primary Colors in Tempera Paint (Blue, Yellow, Red)
• Large White Paper 12x16
• Shaving Cream
• Food Coloring
• Glasses of Water
• 12x16 Trays
• Ruler
• Zip-Lock Bags
• Scissors
• Glue
• Extra Scrap Paper for Arms/Legs

For this lesson we learned about the primary colors and secondary colors. For this activity we started out with the book Little Green and Little Yellow - hense the title of the lesson, Little Green. Then we introduced the other primary colors and how we made secondary colors. To show the students how colors were made we showed them by water and food coloring. We also gave them baggies and put 2 different primary colors to show how they make secondary colors. After they got the hang of mixing colors, we started the real project.

 We filled the cookie sheet up with shaving cream and put two primary paint colors with the shaving cream. We used our fingers to mix the color and then set the piece of paper onto the cookie sheet. Next you would lift the paper and scrape the remaining shaving cream off with a ruler. For the last step, the students and to cut out a monster from their paper. They had to describe their monster using 3 adjectives. For my monster he was crazy, skinny, and musical. 

Extension Activity

For an extension activity for this lesson I would incorporate writing. I would have them write a story about their monster.