Secondary Color – orange, green, or violet (a color created by mixing two primary colors together).Primary Color – red, yellow, or blue (a color that can’t be created by mixing other colors).
Water in small plastic containers (I like the clear, pint size containers from the deli).Tempera paint: red (or magenta), yellow, and blue (or turquoise)… I like to use magenta and turquoise for color mixing since they’re closest in color to the magenta and cyan inks used in the four color printing process – magenta, yellow, cyan, and black.Color wheel templates, cut out and glued onto “uncoated” paper plates (paint adheres best to the “uncoated” plates, and they’re cheaper, too!).Paper plates, 2 per student (one for a palette, one for the color wheel).Why purchase pre-mixed paint colors when students can learn to mix their own colors for more variety and more interesting results? Making a color wheel teaches students how to mix the colors they want while learning the basics of color theory! For a printable 7 page pdf of this project (including my color wheel template), please visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store!
