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Make a Color Wheel starting with a blank color wheel template.

Monochromatic Abstract Painting (4th Grade) art lesson.

Space Landscape (3rd Grade) art lesson.

Snakes Drawn in Analogous Colors (3rd Grade) art lesson.

Warm and Cool Hearts (3rd Grade) art lesson.

Analogous Color Weaving (3rd Grade) art lesson.

Crazy Color Wheels (1st Grade) art lesson.

Color Wheel Spring Flowers (1st Grade) art lesson.

Color Wheel Magic (1st Grade) art lesson.

Warm and Cool Leaves (Kindergarten) art lesson.

Mondrian's Primary Colors (Kindergarten) art lesson.

Ice Cube Painting (Kindergarten) art lesson.

Color Mixing Bugs (Kindergarten) art lesson.

In artwork, cool colors appear to be farther away from the viewer.

Discuss the concept of Color Schemes (described below), explaining the various groupings of colors.Ĭool Colors: a group of colors on the color wheel that includes blues, greens, and violets.

To illustrate how a Color Wheel is created, talk about the color wheel while you paint one, mixing the colors and showing students how to make the secondary colors.

Secondary colors are made by mixing primary colors.

Then the secondary colors are added: orange, green and purple (with green located at the 6:00 position). Color wheels start with the three Primary colors: red, yellow and blue (typically located at the 12:00, 3:00, and 9:00 positions of a circle).The first circular color diagram was created by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. A Color Wheel is an exceptional tool for teaching students about color theory and how colors relate to one another.

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Color wheel primary colors secondary colors