Mixing Primary Colors

Second graders investigate colors. In this visual arts lesson, 2nd graders study primary colors. Students learn to mix primary colors to create secondary colors.

New math? Sure. Squirt, mix, and match. They may make a mess, but kids are sure to enjoy squirting primary colors on their pallette, following the visual formula indicated, and presenting their solutions to these color problems.

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.

A music video features two playful cats that explore the outside world to find colors. They showoff buckets of paint filled with primary colors and mix the paints together to create secondary colors.

Young scholars demonstrate ways to mix primary colors. In this visual arts lesson, students use gelatin and food coloring to create various color mixtures. Young scholars also use tempra paint to mix colors together.

First graders create new colors.  In this primary colors activity, 1st graders brainstorm all the colors they know and use the primary colors to make different colors.  Students keep a record sheet of how each color is mixed together and...

Are your teaching in a cold and snowy environment? If so, then try out this fun activity with your class. You mix a variety of colors in large jars to show learners the difference between primary and secondary colors, then let them mix...

Anyone who has worked with small children know that color identification and color mixing can be fun! This simple idea has a lot of potential. It suggests to mix food coloring with corn syrup to provide an opportunity for color mixing...

Here is a sweet and simple instructional activity that introduces young learners to the three primary colors; red, yellow, and blue. Through a discovery process, youngsters learn how to successfully identify these colors, and the many...

Third graders identify secondary colors that are created by mixing primary color paint combinations, and make paintings of their own.