watercoloring

Jump in: make little squares to celebrate, use as borders, play around with it Day 1: how to clean your brush and not mix colors (have buckets in the classroom, one for clean water, one for dirty water)

Guided: (later, after name tags) one color at a time what are all the things that are blue? bring pictures of blue things -- gallery walk teach them to do a wash, using all blue Move toward little squares of multiple colors later blending colors
 * keep a journal of color mixing and what they got

__Yesterday I Had the Blues__ (book) "I've got the reds..." (hurried, wound up) yellows -- jumpy, energized purples -- cozy

Materials
 * brushes -- all different sizes
 * paper -- water color paper
 * paints
 * water
 * little cups that are hard to knock over