Art inspiration needed, please!

[doglover]

Just been asked to teach a lesson based on colour-mixing (paint) to link in with Roald Dahl's 'George's Marvellous Medicine'...... and I'm rather lost for ideas. It's a Y5 class who are apparently 'very keen'. I'd really appreciate any help!! Many thanks.

isnt there any teachers note son Roald Dahl online somewhere?? failing that ive done some great painitings with kids using water pistols full of paint...

do a damien hirst and drop paint onto spinning paper plates.

Wow, that sounds interesting - although a slightly tenuous link with the story, as he adds all sorts of strange things.

Could you look at colour wheels? I've found that even year 5 children have quite a poor understanding of primary colours and the secondary colours they can make when mixed. Also opposite colours e.g. red-green, yellow-purple, blue-orange or adding white/black more and more to make paler/darker shades of the same colour.

I'm not sure what you could ask them to paint though, unless you looked at work by artists such as Kandinsky.

Hope this was helpful.

Thanks for your thoughts. It would certainly make sense to recap primary and secondary colours first. I've had a quick look on-line but the copious ideas are for literacy-based lessons as opposed to more creative topics. I think the class teacher wants me to get the children to produce paintings to link with the story for her display so that curtails some ideas. Keep them coming! xx

how about experimenting with empty clear dinks bottles? a dash of this colour.. a splodge of that.. shake it up .. add something a third colour from the primaries.. and you'll get a fab brown medicine.

take photos and make a collage of all the wonderous mixing going on?