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Colour and Emotion
Grade 4Grade 5Grade 6Collage2024–2025
Overview
A four-week unit using colour theory as a language for feelings. Students build a personal 'feelings palette' and translate it into an abstract collage.
Inspiration
Etel Adnan, Wassily Kandinsky, and student journals.
Curriculum connections
- ·Visual Arts — colour theory
- ·English — reflective writing
Downloadable resources
Lesson plans and printable handouts will appear here in a future release.
Learning objectives
- 01Understand warm, cool, complementary, and analogous colour.
- 02Use abstraction to describe an internal state.
- 03Reflect in writing on the choices behind an artwork.
Materials
- Assorted papers
- Ink, gouache, oil pastel
- Scissors and PVA glue
Process
- Step 1Colour-wheel warm-up and personal palette.
- Step 2Journal entry: 'this week has felt like…'.
- Step 3Small studies in three colour keys.
- Step 4Final A2 collage with layered materials.
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