It was a rainy day today so the preschoolers and toddlers all made some Kandinski style circles for art. I love the colors they used and the choices they made. My only instructions were the circles couldn't match the color they were touching and the bottom color beneath each new piece had to show all the way around. This helped stay truer to the style of the Kandinsky circles, and ensured some contrast. Not a processed based art activity, but still a valuable one and so fun.
My Kindergarten students will explore these later this year in watercolor along with dozens of other fun artists. The kids really enjoyed doing them.
It's easy to tie in math concepts to this particular art activity because the kids have to decide which circles are bigger and smaller, sort them according to size, and place them in a grid pattern. The older kids did the grid, though we really didn't worry about that too much on this project, and the toddlers did a scaled down version so we didn't need to worry about the grid there either.
Fun!
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