Mixing Primary Colors

Color wheels. Primary, secondary, tertiary color wheels. Colorful flower wheels, black-and-white wheels. Grab this pack of printables and templates for use with all of your color lessons. 

R-E-D spells red. Kids manipulate squares of color and match a lettered, color square with the same letter printed on a clothespin.

Turn young learners into pattern detectives with this fun hands-on activity. Using the included set of cards showing different block towers, children replicate each pattern with their own manipulatives while attempting identify...

Here's a worksheet formulated for fun. Kids add two primary colors to produce a secondary color and record the results on train-themed worksheet.

You have to love the color wheel, it's just so colorful! Your kids will love it too, as they work through an introductory exercise which allows them the opportunity to draw and paint a color wheel of their own. This wheel focuses on...

What better way to learn about colors than by coloring? Starting with the primary colors, young artists follow written prompts to shade in various rectangles and a color wheel to show complementary colors, tints and shades, and more.

Reinforce color recognition with a set of cards that offer color words on a corresponding colored background. Colors in focus are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, and brown.

To gain an understanding of color mixing theory and the color wheel, young artists draw a picture, mix up a batch of secondary colors to which they add dish soap, and using straws, bubble up the paint. They then press their drawings onto...

How do primary colors mix to create secondary colors? Young artists find out in this hands-on activity as they trace a template, paint in the primary colors, mix secondary colors, label, and cut out four separate color wheels.

A young artist from Scott Middle School demonstrates how to create the color purple. If your palette has minimal colors, it is helpful to know how to mix them together for more options. Watch this video to learn how!