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Shaping the Color Wheel

For Teachers 7th
When you paint you almost always use color. Budding artists explore the color wheel, color vocabulary, and painting techniques. They discuss and practice mixing colors, then paint a color wheel for personal reference.
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Complementary Color Names

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students examine and analyze the art of Andy Warhol and the Pop Art movement. They identify the colors of the color wheels and the complementary colors, and analyze art by Andy Warhol. Students then create a painting with their name or...
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Play Doh Color Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners identify primary and secondary colors, and construct color wheels, using Play Doh in the three primary colors.
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Color Wheel Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify and describe the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. They also identify the order in which these three categories of colors fit on the color wheel. Students then create a color wheel using any medium...
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Color Wheels and Schemes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore how to use the color wheel in selecting fabric colors for a quilt. They define and demonstrate monochromatic, complimentary, and analogous color schemes. Lesson plan and worksheets are attached in .pdf and .doc...
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Complementary Superheroes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students discover the color wheel. In this color instructional activity, students find the primary colors, secondary colors, and contrasting colors. They look through the designs of super hero logos and create their own using what they...
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Creative Color Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore graphic design by using color wheels to color images.  In this art analysis lesson, students utilize Adobe Photoshop to experiment with coloring old images and removing all color as well.  Students self critique their...
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Spinning Color Wheels

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students are introduced to primary and secondary colors. Using cardboard, they make a wheel in which they divide into different pie sections to color with primary and secondary colors. To end the lesson, they spend time mixing two colors...
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The Element of Color

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study and analyze the elements of color by creating an personalized color wheel. Emphasis is placed on constructive criticism of student work by others for assessment. Students create short poems for their color wheel...
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Edible Color Wheels

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students create an edible color wheel using cookies and frosting. They mix tints into frosting to simulate the color of the color wheel.
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Clothing Color Wheel

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students are introduced to the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Individually, they are to create a color wheel with all three levels of colors in a creative way. To end the lesson plan, they present their wheel to the class and...
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Weaving a Watercolor

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine the color wheel and work with watercolors. For this color lesson, students go over primary, secondary, and intermediate colors before watching a demonstration of watercolor brush techniques. They choose a shape to paint...
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Self-Portraits

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create self-portrait showing value and emotion, and gather information about color and emotion through different handheld applications.
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Season Tiles: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers K - 3rd
Each color holds its own feeling and these feelings are used to describe the four seasons. Youngsters create a color palate based on the four seasons, assigning various colors to each season. They each create four clay tiles, painting...
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Hats Off to Color

For Teachers K - 4th
Students investigate primary and secondary colors. In this art lesson, students mix primary paint colors to develop secondary colors. Students identify each color they created.
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Color Wheel

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders mix different combinations of the three primary colors to create the three secondary colors, then create new colors by mixing two or more different colors. They identify the colors they create.
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Color Combinations

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students develop a basic understanding of how color is perceived by the eye. They utilize the technique Seurat used to paint A Sunday on La Grande Jatte to create their own paintings.
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Fruit Color Wheel

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create color wheels using painted pictures of fruit in this fun and decorative Art lesson about color mixing, primary, and complimentary colors. It is suggested that younger children be provided pre-drawn fruit shapes for this...
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Vasarely Was A Colorful Fellow

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create artwork inspired by the work of Victor Vasarely. In this op art lesson, 8th graders explore color theory and color mixing. Students create ten shapes to use in their artwork and over the course of two weeks,...
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Color Wheel Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers review the relationship between primary and secondary colors. As a class, they are introduced to the tertiary colors and use photographs to show them in a room design. To end the lesson plan, they create a new color...
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Color Wheel Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the primary and secondary colors. Using a worksheet, they follow the directions from their teacher to complete the activity. To end the lesson plan, they use the worksheet to create a separate color wheel.
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Tissue Paper Designs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the colors in the color wheel and complete a tissue art activity that includes a minimum of three different colors from the color wheel and two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. They discuss...
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Clothing Color Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Individually, they place the colors into the correct sequence and create their own color wheel. To end the lesson, they share their color wheel with the class and...
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Warm/Cool Leaves

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the difference between warm and cool colors. They discuss the basic color wheel, reviewing primary, secondary and complimentary colors. An activity allows students to discover how to mix the warm and cool colors.

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