Hues of Flowers

Materials:

Nature Journal, colored pencils or watercolor pencils, a field of wildflowers or a floral garden

Download this FREE worksheet for the little ones to find/color wildflowers in a color scavenger hunt. (Just click the image above.)

Activity:

While observing wildflowers or a floral garden take note of the shades of the blossoms. Try to color match different flowers by mixing colors on a watercolor palette or with your colored pencils. Collect a page of color swatches from your visit and label each color with the name or description of the flower it represents.

Younger: 

Have the younger children name the basic color family of the flowers “purple, pink, etc.” Go on a color scavenger hunt trying to find a flower in each color of the rainbow.

Older:

Encourage the older children to get more specific with their color matching and take the time to mix the colors to really match the flowers.

Take it Further:

Why are flowers different colors? What other ways do flowers attract pollinators? Take the time to enjoy paintings by Claude Monet and other impressionists who used color in an emotional and provocative way. Compare them to modern impressionist floral paintings by Bobbie Burgers. You may even consider doing a mini-lesson on color or color theory.

Claude Monet “Oat and Poppy Field Giverny” 1890

Bobbie Burgers, 2019 Click on the image to be taken to her website bobbieburgers.com or follow her on Instagram for current projects.

One of my favorite hands on manipulatives for teaching colors when they are young and color theory when they are older is this color wheel by FROM Jennifer. Click on the image above to get to her shop on Etsy.

For more great printables on teaching about color check out this listing from My Darling Chickadee Co on Etsy (Click the image above to be takent to her shop.)