Why is Blue Dog Blue?

 

1st graders love painting!  We got some more color mixing practice with this project, based on the book Why Is Blue Dog Blue?

First we read the book Why Is Blue Dog Blue?, by George Rodrigue.  It is a fun story about how artists use color to express themselves.

 

After carefully studying the pictures in the book, we drew our own dogs.  We painted them using only primary colors (red, yellow, and blue).

Little fingers got fine motor practice as we painted carefully around tricky shapes in our pictures.



Yellow and red make an orange sun!

Blue and yellow make green grass.

Finally, we outlined our dogs in black paint.  More fine motor practice... wow!  We are growing up to be great artists!

Finished product.

Finished product.

Finished product.

Finished product.

Finished product.

Finished product.

Finished product.