Paint Chip Value City

This week the kids are learning about value (not values like morals- which prompted a lot of faith-based art projects on my Pinterest search) but Value in art- the range from light to dark. I explained the use of value to make drawings and paintings look realistic and three dimensional. I also showed a short time lapse video of a hyper-realistic drawing of a bag of M&M's that many of the kids were fascinated by. Every student got to choose a couple paint chip color strips and create buildings out of them using small rectangular stickers for windows and cut-out trees, cars and clouds to decorate around them.