Kindergarten Mondrian Primary Colors

Kindergarteners were introduced to Piet Mondrian by watching a fun YouTube video that allows the students to go into Broadway Boogie Woogie. Each year I tweak this project so here are the 3 different ways my students have worked with red, yellow, and blue!

Kindergarten Kandinsky Lines

Kindergartners were introduced to the element of design of line. (straight, curly, curved, spiral, zig zag, dotted, dashed, dot-dash, zipper, thick, thin, short, long, and crazy)I always start out asking my students what kinds of lines they already know. If they leave any out, I draw it and we come up with names for these "new" lines.We watched youtube links that showed animated Kandinsky artwork and we identified these different line types in the video. I tried 2 different media with the kindergartners to see which one was aesthetically more pleasing. 3 classes at one school used various colors of crayons to create a "grid" of different lines and then the students could watercolor in the negative spaces between the lines. The 2 classes of kindergartners at the other school used large black Sharpie to create their lines randomly on their paper and then they watercolored where they wanted. I personally felt the black sharpie lines were clear and popped out and captured my attention. So you decide.....