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Golden Artist Colors: Color Mixing Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Golden Artist Colors presents a guide to mixing acrylic paint. An explanation of color theory and mixing color with paint is included on this site. There are also color charts and exercises that can be done with paint that explore how...
Interactive
PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Paint Splat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Replicating Colors: Using Tints, Shades and Primary Colors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this activity, students are asked to mix paints that match a muted color they choose, in order to create a formula for the color. Other students then try to recreate their color.
Article
wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Create Realistic Flesh Tones

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great formula for getting a Caucasian skin tone by mixing paint colors. Adjustments to the formula will result in other skin tone variations.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Tints and Shades

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.]
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Color Theory

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to the concept of primary, secondary and tertiary colors. The lesson concludes with an activity in which students create their own color wheel from mixing colors and...
Graphic
Curated OER

A Color Wheel.

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick review of the color wheel and some tips on how to mix colors with paint.
Graphic
Curated OER

How to Create Realistic Flesh Tones

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great formula for getting a Caucasian skin tone by mixing paint colors. Adjustments to the formula will result in other skin tone variations.