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Whirling Colors

Spirals are all around us. Students will identify some examples and then have fun creating them with Crayola Colourwhirls™

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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  • Paper

Steps

  • Step 1

    Spirals are all around us. Ask students to think of examples of this pattern, which is defined as an open curve that revolves around a fixed central point moving farther away from the center as it turns. They might think of natural examples such as snail shells, a tornado, or the center of a sunflower. Or they might picture a spiral staircase, a coil, or soft ice cream as it's dispensed into a cone.

  • Step 2

    Ask students to create art using Crayola Colourwhirls. Encourage them to spin the hand-held top and form spiral shapes. They might create overlapping spirals or a trail of spirals or other organic shapes.

  • Step 3

    Have students present their whirling art and discuss the shapes and spirals they made.

Standards

MATH: Describe, compare, quantify, and classify objects by attributes. Sort objects into categories. 

MATH: Analyze, compare, create, and compose math ideas using written, oral, and drawn lines, shapes, forms, and patterns.

Adaptations

Have children create a spiral design with Colourwhirls and then use markers to embellish or add to the shapes to make another image such as a garden, flowers, or animals. 

Have students tell original spiral stories where the scenes or characters keep coming back to the center and expand outwards in different directions. Ask them to connect the way the plot and characters move with the spiral art they created.