I can talk about color fairly extensively so I decided to give the girls a lesson. I got out a box of crayons, created a color wheel and talked about how colors interact with each other.
Then I drew six hearts on a piece of poster board and had them choose colors from one half of the color wheel and color the hearts.
Then we chose watercolor paint and painted over the whole thing. The wax from the crayons would not mix with the water from the paint.
This ended up looking really cool (better than the pictures) because the paint filled in tiny areas in the hearts that hadn't been colored and (being in complimentary colors) really made the uneven edges of the heart pop out.
Then they colored with a white crayon in areas they wanted to keep.
And we picked another color, similar to the first, to go over the whole thing again.
These are beautiful in person with a lot of subtlety. They loved this project.
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