Now we will be discovering some of colour’s properties and possibilities, its literally endless variations, its characteristics and its capacity for carrying meaning.

Your class will be divided into eight or nine groups. You can have more groups if the class is very large, in which case the same colour can be given to more than one group. 

Each group is given a colour: The Reds, the Blues, the Yellows, the Greens, the Purples, the Browns, the Blacks and Greys, the Whites and Creams. If you like, you can even add the Pinks or the Oranges.

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Each group should be given a few pairs of scissors. If you have no scissors, you can tear instead of cut.

Your group will need its own table or enough uninterrupted floor surface on which to spread your large sheet of white paper or newsprint. 

All members of each group should then engage in a “colour hunt“ – searching quickly through the magazine pages and papers for examples of your group’s colour. The red group, for instance, should cut or tear pieces out of pictures that are any shade or variationof the colour red. 

These pieces can be of any size. If you find wonderful examples of a specific colour that another group could use, feel free to offer it to them!

Find as many colour samples as possible (this may take about fifteen to twenty minutes). As you collect your colour samples, place these colour-side-up on your sheet.

Then, through discussion within your group, begin sorting and arranging them from dark to light. When satisfied with your group’s arrangement, glue them down.

Display your sheets so that everyone can see them.

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