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Color Theory & Using Layers

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate the color wheel theory and incorporate it into simple sketches on their handheld. The importance of the use of layering and the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary colors is presented in this lesson.
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The Color Black

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this color worksheet, learners color the pictures of things that can be black. The color 5 items that include bat, a race car, a dog, and a panther.
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The Color Pink

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this color worksheet, young scholars color 3 pictures of items that can be pink. They color black line pictures of a pig, a flamingo, and a flower.
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QAR for The Color Purple

For Students 9th - 12th
Have you heard of the QAR strategy? If your class is reading The Color Purple, provide them with this two-page learning exercise to get them thinking. With the strategy, readers are introduced to four types of questions (right there,...
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Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning

A Foundation for Implementation

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Color is the focus of this amazing resource packed with math, social studies, science, and language arts activities. Kids create a color word wall and post symbols, graph the number of objects they find of each color while on a...
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The Elements of Art Through Photography

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders photograph examples of the five elements of art: line, shape, color, pattern, and composition.
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Color My World Grey and Blue

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Can colors help to convey a mood in writing? Explore this question with your class using the songs "Grey Street" by the Dave Matthews Band and "Blu is a Mood" by Blu Cantrell. After analyzing the effect of the color words in these songs...
Printables
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Ice Cream Color Matching Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Kids can practice color matching and fine motor skills as they cut out scoops to put on cones and bars to place over popsicle sticks. Glue the first to pages to the inside of a file...
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Heidi Songs

Ladybug Color Nonsense

For Students K - 1st
Let these ladybugs teach your youngsters a thing or two about spelling CVC words. Kids color the real words black and the fake words red to reveal what these ladybugs really look like.
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Paul Gauguin: Complimentary Color

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
First introduce your art class to the master, Paul Gauguin, then to the concept of complimentary colors. This slideshow provides a bit of background on the famous artist then walks kids through a step-by-step process intended as a study...
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Color Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this recognizing colors worksheet, students draw lines to match the color of each dog's collar to the same color bone. Students match four colors.
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The Color Wheel

For Teachers K - 8th
Hand out this nifty resource to make your next lesson on the color wheel a snap. It is a picture of the color wheel alongside a description of primary, secondary, and mixing colors. Great for artists of any age.
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K12 Reader

Color the Spring Adjectives

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Grammar enthusiasts test their adjective knowledge with a worksheet that challenges them to color each word a specific color based on the type of word that is found inside it. When complete, scholars discover a bright bouquet of flowers...
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Horse of a Different Color: An Introduction to Color in the Visual Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify ways in which the artist uses color to draw the view's attention to points within the composition and creates a sense of depth. They discuss the effect of color on the tone and mood of an artwork.
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K12 Reader

Color the St. Patrick’s Day Adjectives

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Who needs luck when you've got grammar skills? Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in language arts class with a fun coloring activity that prompts young readers to color all adjective sections green.
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K12 Reader

Color the Christmas Adjectives

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
'Tis the season to be joyful, merry, beautiful, and red! Test young learners' knowledge of parts of speech with a festive coloring worksheet. As they identify which words are nouns and which words are adjectives, they color each part of...
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Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Local Color in the Late 19th Century

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Kate Chopin's The Awakening introduces readers not only to the lush Louisiana setting of Grand isle but also to the nuances of Creole culture. the second instructional activity in a three-part series examines how Chopin's use of literary...
Printables
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Colors Clip Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Explore the ways in which block color clip art can enhance your classroom. These bright printable color blocks come with five different teaching ideas that span graphing, sorting, and even bulletin board building. 
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Clothe Batik and Color Blending

For Teachers 10th
Fabric dyeing and textile art has been around for hundreds of years. Budding fabric artists explore the Batik dyeing technique and color blending as they create unique and personal designs. The full step-by-step procedure and materials...
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Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) - A Cultural Holiday: Color Exploration of Warm and Cool Colors

For Teachers 3rd
Young artists examine pictures from and discuss the holiday Día de los Muertos. The symbolic skull showcases the use of warm and cool colors. Color exploration allows learners to use coordinating colors to create two paper...
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Music Fun

Instruments to Trace Color and Label

For Students K - 8th
Handbells and castanets. Triangles and timpani. Trumpets and trombones. As part of their study of instruments, young musicians label, trace and color the parts of seven instruments. Also included in the resource packet are tracing...
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Discovering the Element of Color in Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale: A Comparison of Tone Color and Art Color

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience several different tone colors in the song and also add layers of color to their copy of "The Owl" to compare and contrast how an artist would create the element of color.
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Alphabet Worksheet: Letter X Recognition

For Students 1st - 3rd
Alphabet learners identify words that begin with the letter 'X' and then color pictures that begin with this letter. This activity includes 13 problems.
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K12 Reader

Color the Nouns: Octopus

For Students K - 2nd Standards
An octopus has eight arms—but how many nouns can your learners find on this activity? A color-by-grammar activity unveils a smiling octopus when scholars color all nouns green.