Little Blue and Little Yellow


Minnesota K-3 Visual Art Standards Used in This Lesson:

  • 1. Identify the elements of visual art including Color, line, shape, Form, Value, texture and space.

  • 2. Identify the tools, materials and techniques from a variety of two- and three-dimensional media such as drawing, printmaking, ceramics or sculpture.

  • 3. Identify the characteristics of visual artworks from a variety of cultures including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

  • 4. Create original two- and three- dimensional artworks to express ideas, experiences or stories.

  • 5. Share and describe a personal artwork and reflect on a presentation based on the feedback of others.

  • 6. Compare and contrast the characteristics of a variety of works of visual art.

    • Additional Tie-ins

  • Reading
  • Literature tie in

    • Leo Lionni's book "Little Blue and Little yellow" is read in class and a cute stop-motion video related to the book is shown.

    This lesson allows students to learn how colors mix. It may be used with play dough, or paint.

    Students are given two colors of paint or play dough at each table. They are to take a little of one color and paint a spot on paper. then they take another color and mix the two colors on their paper. If it's play dough, they can simply knead the two colors together at their spot.

    Next, they move to another table where other colors are waiting for them.

    Repeat for each table.

    If we're using play dough, after they have mixed their colors they can make something out of the 3-5 different colors they have.