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This lesson uses pictures to illustrate warm and cold colours to pupils. They look at warm and cold pictures, discuss how they make them feel and pick out the colours used to do this. They then look directly at those colours in isolation and read them out with the teacher's support. They learn the vocabulary "warm colours" and "cold colours". They then consolidate their learning through an interactive game in which they have to sort warm and cold colours, as raindrops, which fall from the sky. Practical classroom activities are then suggested for the pupils to make warm and cold pictures.
Suitable for
Year 2
Using a non-interactive whiteboard
The interactive game would work the same, but a mouse would be used instead of fingers.
Prior learning required
Pupils would need to know their colour names.
Aims and objectives
Pupils will know that some colours are warm colours and some colours are cold colours and be able to sort them.
Timings
The lesson would be introduced as a whole class lesson using an interactive whiteboard. It would take approximately 15 minutes to look at the warm and cold pictures and discuss the use of colour. The game could be introduced to the pupils as a whole class so they understand what to do. They would then be able to play it independently. The game itself last a few minutes, so all pupils would be able to have a go during the remainder of the lesson. The practical activities would take approximately 30 minutes.
Suggestions for group activities
Pupils make warm and cold paintings ? eg a fire (warm) or a water picture (cold) ? or they could explore the colours in a more abstract way such as in this image. They would be provided with a tray of cold coloured paints and a tray of warm coloured paints (the pupils could sort the colours first).
Suggestions for differentiation
Younger pupils could work in a group, choosing one warm colour and one cold colour to paint on a paper tile or shape. They could then make a group collage of their work.
As an extension activity, pupils could paint a scene (eg a garden in the summer and then in the winter), firstly using warm colours, and then secondly, using cold colours. They could then discuss how the change of colour from warm to cold makes them feel about the picture.
Further activities
As a follow-up of this they could make warm and cold collages of their pictures using a variety of materials. Pupils could make a class display of their work. Click here to see some examples.
Curriculum links
KS1 Art
Making ? to experiment and explore with colour using a variety of media.
Welsh links ? Pupils could look at pictures of Welsh landscapes and try to pick out the warm and cold colours used. They could try and decide whether the picture was taken or painted in the summer or winter, and whether it makes them feel warm or cold to look at it.
Pupils could also look at the works of some Welsh artists and decide whether they use warm or cold colours in their work.
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