Tried and True Kandinsky Circles

Since this is my first year teaching elementary level art, I decided to go with a tried and true lesson for one of my first lessons this year.  The Kandinsky circles were really fun to do and I was able to adapt it to all grade levels. 

We started out with a short lesson on Kandinsky with pictures of the artist and his works of art.  We talked about how Kandinsky liked to use shapes.  We reviewed types of shapes.  The lesson on shapes was a little more extensive for kinder and 1st and more of a review for 2nd through 5th.

I had the students fold their paper into sections.  Kinder had a half sheet and folded in half, 1st and 2nd folded a full sheet in to 4 squares, and 3rd through 5th grade folded a full sheet into 6 squares.  I hadn't received my supplies for the year at that time so I just had them use crayons to color the circles
We also had a brief discussion about color choices and making sure that we didn't put like colors next to one another because we needed the contrast for the rings to show up.  Over all the students enjoyed it.  They didn't want to stop making it until they were completely finished, which is always a good thing.  Here's a sample of a complete work.