Perfectly Purple
Imagination and a lot of purple crayons

The youngest students at Yates Arts in Education Magnet School took the lead from Harold and let their imaginations run wildly purple.  The creative projects led them right out of the classroom and to Proctor’s Theatre where they attended a performance of “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” a story about a curious four-year old whose imagination and purple crayon lead him into a world of his own invention.

“This was an exciting event for the students, who had been trying out many different ways to use their own purple crayons to study various famous artists and art forms,” said Richard Roe, a teacher at Yates. 

Students in grades kindergarten and first grade have been working on an array of creative “purple” lessons.  Carrie White’s first graders have been learning about Matisse and his paper collages. 

"Oh and what’s purple about that," you might ask.   After learning about the artist, the students created monochromatic purple collages based on Matisse’s art. 

Jennifer Lounsbury’s first graders studied three art prints while they experimented with line, composition and style.  They then came up with impressive copies of Grant Wood’s  “American Gothic,” in purple.

Other classes used their creativity to paint and make collages and murals.   

The classes celebrated as they admired the completed art exhibit.  Of course, they enjoyed none other than purple cookies.

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