Art - Sky Colour

Today, we began with study the cover of "Sky Color" by Peter H. Reynolds. "What colour is the sky?" I asked the children. "Blue" the children said. "Is there other colours in the sky?" I wondered. Some children looked at outside of the window and said "white and grey, it's cloudy!"
As we read through the story, the children explored that the sky could change colour depends on the time of a day or on the weather. 
Some children also shared their knowledge about that we see colours because of light and the rainbow colours within the light.

The children were encouraged to try a new art technique to draw with white candle upon the paper first.

 Then, we picked different sky colours to put on our paper. The water colour helped us to see the candle marks we made at the beginning. 
Having practice using water colour during our art time, the children were capable controlling the amount of water they applied with the water colour on paper. The children learned to stop adding water upon the same spot and to wipe their brushes to reduce the water.

 It was exciting to watch the children's gradual progression of water colour art technique. Moreover, the children enjoyed the process and carefully observed the colour-mixing happened on the paper.