Color Bear is a game designed to teach kindergarten and first grade students basic art concepts like color mixing and geometric shapes. The game aims to teach students about primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, how to mix them, and how to use geometric shapes in drawing. Before playing the game, teachers are encouraged to do preparatory activities to familiarize students with colors and color mixing through hands-on experiences like bringing colored objects to class or making a rainbow cake. By addressing color mixing logically rather than through trial and error, the game aims to help students better apply color concepts in subsequent creative art projects.

1. Color Bear Integration & Assessment
Color bear is a game that aims helping on kindergaarten to 1st grade art classes where
kids learn the first concepts on arts such as color admixtures and geometric shapes.
Learning objectives:
 Understand that geometric shapes are created by points conected by lines.
 Understand that there are different geometric shapes with different complexities.
 Using diferent geometric shapes for basic drawing skills.
 Learn that exists primary colors and wich are they.
 Learn that exists secondary colors, and how to make them.
 Learn that exists terciary colors, and how to make them.
 Make decisions on color admixture.
 Be able to mix colors correctly in later exercises with dye and paper.
How we do that?
 Students will draw geometric shapes in a point-to-point approach.
 Each grade will have additional geometric shapes with increasing complexity.
(squares, circles and triangles for kindergarten. - ellipses and lozenge for preschool.
- octogon and decagon for 1st grade)
 Game turns around on students creating a paint with different geometric shapes.
 Learners will need to admixture primary colors to paint geometric shapes with
secondary and terciary colors
 Kids will have all the primary colors available for admixturing. Forcing them to
make decisions.

2. Integration into target environment and additional resources
Before playing this game, teachers needs to make sure that kids knows colors. At least
the primary colors. And if children have already seen colors being mixed because we
want an analogy learning approach not trial and error approach. Below are two
suggested activitie to integrate children with color and color mixing thinking.
1. In the previous class give one of the primary colors for each student, tell
them to bring an object with the given color on the next class. Then, in the
next class, put three tables in front of the class and call the colors, one at a
time. Children will need to put the right object on the right table. So they can
see the different colors in the real world and associate them by name.
2. Make a rainbow cake with kids. It's a 6 layer cake with different colors. You
can bring the dough ready from home and do with them just the part of
mixing the dyes. Let the children see you mixing the dyes to create the
different colors of dough. (They need start associating colors and blends.) It
takes only 10 minutes in the oven and you could eat it on recreation time.
Suggested recipe: http://kerrycooks.com/easy-6-layer-rainbow-cake-step-by-step/
Acessing progress
During this game several problems on color mixing will be presented to be solved. It's

3. expected that kids relate something they already seen on real world with the
presented problem. So they could start thinking on an analogy approach instead of
simple trial and error approach. In this way, they will begin to reason on the subject
rather than using the pure empiricism of trial and error approach. So it's very
important an earlier activity where they could see colors mixtures being made. During
this game they sould make their first color admixtures on their own, as well as drawing
geometric shapes.
After that they would be able to free creative classes with paper and dyes. It's hoped
that after the rationalization of the subject, there will be less waste of dye and paper;
as well as more consistent colors on the works produced.