1st Grade: Kandinsky color mixing

My favorite thing about this project is that I only give students the 3 primary colors of paint, and they come up with all of these amazing other colors.  They love it, too. :)  I show them the basics of how to make the secondaries and we talk about how to get brown, but the rest they magically do on their own!  We first fold paper to get the 8 square grid.  They start with red, yellow, and blue somewhere in their painting (either a dot or circle), and then they have to color mix to fill in the rest, trying to make each box different.  This is 2-3 day lesson. Sometimes I read them "The Dot" to go along with the idea of how something simple can become something great, and I show them the famous painting by Kandinsky.