Series

Play in Color!

12 episodes

Play in Color! is a set of short, animated art lessons hosted by a friendly cast of kid characters who each introduce one visual-art idea at a time. Young artists meet the primary colors, warm and cool colors, and art words like geometric and organic, then explore what makes a self-portrait, an abstract painting, a cityscape, or nature art. Other episodes step outside to look at graffiti and street art, draw a familiar neighborhood block, and see how murals and community art tell a place’s stories. Most run two to four minutes, aimed at pre-K through grade three, and each ends with a simple make-your-own idea.

what this series covers

What Play in Color! covers

12 episodes in the library, tagged for Pre-K–5th. Heaviest coverage: Art. Between them they line up with 11 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

Pre-K: 2
K: 7
1st: 9
2nd: 11
3rd: 8
4th: 3
5th: 2

Episodes per subject

Art: 12

National Core Arts 11

VA:Cr2.3.KCreate art that represents natural and constructed environments.
VA:Cn10.1.3Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.
VA:Cn11.1.1Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.
VA:Cr1.2.KEngage collaboratively in creative art-making in response to an artistic problem.
VA:Cr3.1.1Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.
VA:Pr6.1.2Analyze how art exhibited inside and outside of schools (such as in museums, galleries, virtual spaces, and other venues) contributes to communities.

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VA:Re7.1.2Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments.
VA:Re7.1.KIdentify uses of art within one's personal environment.
VA:Re7.2.1Compare images that represent the same subject.
VA:Re7.2.KDescribe what an image represents.
VA:Re8.1.2Interpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and characteristics of form.

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