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Color Mixing Memory
Follow the directions to create this card game for your classroom. The objective is to reinforce color mixing basics. Players work to collect the three matches needed before their opponent does.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Color Mixing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an elementary primer to mixing colors in art and is a great resource for beginning artists with activity pages for kids to demonstrate their understanding of primary and secondary colors.
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Paint Splat
Young players will enjoy this cleverly animated color-mixing game that guides them through the process of mixing and matching colors. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for English...
Other
Tooter4kids: Light and Color
You'll find a wealth of resources at this site dedicated to color! Easy-to-read discussions can be found on topics ranging from the science of light to complementary colors and the color wheel. All special terms are highlighted and...
Other
Mixing Mouse Tracks
This art idea is based off the children's book "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stoll Walsh. A fun way to introduce young learners to the primary and secondary colors through simple mixing exercises.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Water Color Mixing
In this classroom lab activity, students will experiment with mixing the primary colors together: red, yellow, and blue, to determine what new colors may be observed.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Leo Lionni's a Color of His Own
Students will summarize a Leo Lionni story through drawing and writing. Students will also mix the three primary colors to make secondary colors.
Other
60 Second Science: Color Exploration I (Primary Colors Lesson Plan)
Discover what primary colors are and explore ways in which red, yellow, and blue can be mixed to create new colors.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Dot to Dot Seurat
KinderArt shows how pointillism can be a very creative way to paint. It involves dots, color mixing and divisionism. Students will be enriched by this method created by Georges Seurat.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Squish!
A book about the primary and secondary colors. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
Other
Color Cube: Color Fun
Six activities sure to engage students of any age! Interactive games and puzzles let you play with color and create your own unique designs!
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Tints and Shades
In this activity, students solve a problem involving mixing of paint colors. They use color charts to determine the fractional parts and percentages of colors needed to create tints and shades. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Create Realistic Flesh Tones
A great formula for getting a Caucasian skin tone by mixing paint colors. Adjustments to the formula will result in other skin tone variations.
Other
Art With Mrs. Filmore: 1st Grade Art Lessons
This site offers a variety of art lessons that use various media. Each project includes instructions and pictures of the students' completed artwork.
Other
Giraffian Kid's Stuff: Shapes and Colours
Students can mix and match shapes and colors in this simple learning activity.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Rainbow Milk
This activity is designed for students to learn that primary colors mixed together make secondary colors. They will also experiment with how fat and soap molecules repel each other in water.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Leo Lionni's Little Blue and Little Yellow
Students will use Leo Lionni's literature and his website to learn about the author, mix primary colors, summarize and rewrite a story, and use graphing skills to determine the classes' favorite color.
Curated OER
How to Create Realistic Flesh Tones
A great formula for getting a Caucasian skin tone by mixing paint colors. Adjustments to the formula will result in other skin tone variations.