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Home>Learn>Teachers>School Field Trips>Art Tales Sky Color

# Art Tales: Sky Color

Age 4 through Grade 1

**We are no longer accepting requests for winter/spring field trips.**

**We will offer a selection of in-person and virtual field trips (using Zoom) for Fall 2024.**

**Request for fall field trips (September 30 – December 6, 2024) will be accepted from August 1 – November 1, 2024.**

Art Tales: *Sky Color* is a field trip designed for our youngest learners. Students will use their imaginations to explore works of art and discover how some artists depict the natural world. This field trip includes the reading of *Sky Color* by Peter H. Reynolds, exploration of two landscape paintings, and an art-making experience. 

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Book Summary

In*Sky Color*, Marisol volunteers to paint the sky for the class mural, but she is missing a key color that she needs. During her ride home on the school bus, she finds inspiration that helps her consider all the colors the sky can be. 

Looking and Learning Skills

**On this field trip, students:**

• Observe, describe, compare, and contrast works of art.• Create a landscape using tempera paint sticks.• Feel a sense of belonging in the museum.

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**In-Person Field Trip Information**

Group Size: Up to 60 studentsLength: 60 minutes Meeting Location: West Building Rotunda

**Important Scheduling Information**

Field trips must be scheduled at least four weeks in advance. Groups must contain at least 15 students.

Once your field trip has been scheduled, you will receive an email confirmation within ten business days.

**Title I Bus Stipends**

Funding for the cost of bus transportation is available for Title I schools that participate in our docent-led school field trips. For more information, please get in touch with Deirdre Palmer at [email protected] or (202) 842-6880, or use the application form.

## Examples of Works Featured on this Field Trip

Examples of Works Featured on Tour  
Martin Johnson Heade, *Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes*, c. 1871/1875, oil on canvas, John Wilmerding Collection, 2010.74.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour  
Thomas Moran, *Green River Cliffs, Wyoming*, 1881, oil on canvas, Gift of the Milligan and Thomson Families, 2011.2.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour  
Claude Monet, *The Houses of Parliament, Sunset*, 1903, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.48

Examples of Works Featured on Tour  
John Ward of Hull, *The Northern Whale Fishery: The "Swan" and "Isabella"*, c. 1840, oil on canvas, The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund, 2007.114.1

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Art Tales for Pre-K

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