Color wheel lesson elementary

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5th grade students painted a 12 section color wheel and then assembled it into an eyeball to complete their art project.

Let's play with color today! A great place to start talking about color with kids is with the color wheel. You can talk about how colors blend, color mixing and which colors combine to make which

Simple Color Wheel Chart

My 2 year sabbatical is coming to end. For the upcoming year I'll be offering limited private sessions only. The fall session is full and I...

I find myself doing different color wheel projects each year, and I think I like this one the best because it is simple and only took 3 classes. Day 1- Each student took a 9 x 12 paper and drew and "X" and a horizontal line across the middle. This allowed our paper to be divided into 6 parts. Then, students drew an image of their choice in the middle of their paper. The image had to enter all 6 parts and have detail. They went over their lines with sharpie. Day 2- After reviewing primary and…

Materials: - tempera paint (red, yellow, blue) - paintbrushes - white drawing paper - pencils - scissors - glue or glue sticks - blac...

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A while back I shared a tutorial on how to make a 3-D color wheel out of paper plates, which I found out from a reader comment, came from the September 2010 issue of Arts and Activities. I just wanted to share the photographs I took of these projects hanging in my display case. My 5th grade class this year is very small so they didn't exactly fill the case very much, but the first year I did this, I had almost 50 color wheels in there and it looked amazing!