Painting Eggs

In our first peer lesson taught in class, the teachers topic was paint. They picked a very creative way to teach us about paint and incorporated an upcoming holiday, Easter. To start off the lesson they had us go on an egg hunt and find one egg each. Inside our egg there was a piece of colored paper. Depending on what color we got, we had to use that color when painting one of our eggs. The teachers told us about the elements, color, shapes, and  lines and that we needed to include those when painting our eggs.  We had three eggs to paint, one had to include the color we found it our plastic egg and the other two had to include lines and shape. It was very fun, creative way to teach students about painting and elements.

An extension activity I would have my students do in 1st grade is to paint a giant egg together.  I would have each child paint a part of it. They could use shapes, patterns, shading, lines, and whatever other elements they wanted. We would hang it up and they could see how everyone's painting was different. I would tell them that just like our egg, we all are different ,but together we make something beautiful and unique.  I would also have them write which elements they painted and why to incorporate language arts into it.