Earlier in the project we investigated how light travelled through transparent, translucent and opaque materials.  For this part of the project we looked at how light behaved with coloured materials.  We looked at our lights through different coloured gels and how these gels would behave if we layered different colours on top of each other.

We talked with Ann about the spectrum of light and in order to make this easier to understand we made rainbow jars.  This is probably my favourite part of the projects – the encorporation of other curricular areas with art.

During this session we measured around our jars and cut the gels into rectangular sections, big enough to cover the jar and to allow an overlap of gel colours.  We had to glue the gels to the jars really carefully and then we put a tea light inside for our light souce.

Reflecting on this lesson makes me realise how much the children have understood about light, colour, reflection, materials and their properties and how their art skills have improved.