But, now that I have done it again, I am VERY prepared for tomorrow’s & Friday’s classes! I used to teach art regularly – every week, and I have taught the Color Wheel probably 50 times or more. It has been a couple years since I have lead a Watercolor Color Wheel lesson, so unfortunately – I was a bit rusty. There are 3 fifth grade classes at this school, and each class has between 28 – 30 students – fairly large classes. And, a couple students were absent today – so it could’ve been an even larger group! I will be leading two more sessions of this Color Wheel lesson to the other two fifth grade classes tomorrow and Friday.

That was a pretty large group of students. Have the students store their color wheels in a place where they can use them for further reference.I just got back from teaching the color wheel (with tube watercolors) to a class of 27 fifth graders.

Go around the outer edge of your color wheel and label with a W or a C the warm and cool colors.Ĭall out basic primary and secondary colors and have the students tell you if they are warm or cool and if they are primary or secondary. So when you want something in particular to stand out, it will always be wise to use warm colors in coloring it in. On the other side of the line you see your reds, oranges, and yellows, which are called warm colors. Cool colors tend to recede or go back into space. On one side of the line we find blues, greens, and purples. Once your color wheel is complete you'll notice we can divide a line down the center. Do not scribble as this dries out your marker and does not create neat work. For example, orange should go between red and yellow and so on. Fill in the secondary colors between the two primary colors used to make that color. In each of 3 alternating sections, put red, yellow, and blue. We will need six equal sections of the circle.

We will put the primary colors down first. The color wheel is in a circle so that we can read it for information. Let's begin making our color wheel, using the primary and secondary colors. Mixing red and yellow we get orange mixing red and blue we get purple and mixing blue and yellow we get green. The secondary colors are colors created by mixing 2 primary colors together. However, with these 3 colors, we can mix all other colors. These colors are called primary because they are first and most important colors because we cannot use any other colors to mix them. There are 3 primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. Let's begin with the basic primary colors. Knowing a little about color will help you to make better color choices in your art work. We want to begin today's class by looking at basic color theory. The student will know the primary, secondary, warm, and cool color schemes.

Color wheel worksheet 3 primary color