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Color Cube: Color Fun
Six activities sure to engage students of any age! Interactive games and puzzles let you play with color and create your own unique designs!
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Handprint: An Artist's Color Theory
An incredibly extensive, but somewhat idiosyncratic, explanation of color theories.
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Talking Textiles: The Color Wheel
Interactive resource explains primary, secondary, tertiary, and complementary colors, the symbolic content of color, and the relationship between color and mood.
Other
Worqx: Color Theory: Overview
As an overview of color theory, this site covers topics such as communicating color, color application, color basics, color wheel, and more. A color basics tutorial is also provided.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Color
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is from the artist's encyclopedia entry for color and includes information on the color wheel, value, mood, natural...
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Watercolor painting.com: Color Theory
A great introduction to color theory with colorful illustrations and examples.
Crickweb
Crickweb: Literacy: Color Labeling
The interactive learning activity explores the names of colors. Students drag and drop the names of the color on the picture of the color.
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Fed Stats: Mapstats for Kids Color Scheme
Mapstats is a unique cross-curricular site that uses maps to teach about monochromatic color.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Spinning Your (Color) Wheels
Instructions on how to make a color wheel that spins to produce white. With links to scientific, academic articles that explain what is happening.
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Color Worqx: Complementary Colors
After providing an overview of color theory and the color wheel, this site focuses on complementary colors and perceptual opposites. Various examples of complementary colors are also provided.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: How Primary Colors Combine to Make New Colors
In this science fair project, paint color pie slices onto a wheel and spin the wheel on an electric drill. See how colors add together to make new colors. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an...
Other
Golden Artist Colors: Color Mixing Guide
Golden Artist Colors presents a guide to mixing acrylic paint. An explanation of color theory and mixing color with paint is included on this site. There are also color charts and exercises that can be done with paint that explore how...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Primary and Secondary
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson plan is on the color wheel and it studies both primary and secondary colors using Grace Hartigan's "Billboard." The...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Visible Color Spectrum Wheel
A brief explanation of the visible color wheel.
Curated OER
A Color Wheel.
A quick review of the color wheel and some tips on how to mix colors with paint.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Color Theory
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to the concept of primary, secondary and tertiary colors. The lesson concludes with an activity in which students create their own color wheel from mixing colors and...
Florida State University
Florida State University: Optical Illusions
A brief informative site on optical illusions. Includes some beautiful examples of optical illusions such as spinning disks, color wheels, and Moire Pattern Generators.
Other
Art Quizz: Color (1)
A quiz on color complements and basic facts about color. Click back to home to access the French- or Spanish-language version of the site.
Other
Create a Mood With Color Key
Clearly defines high and low key color pallets. Provides visual examples and links to other color concepts. Attention is directed to watercolor painting, but can be applied to other painting methods.
Curated OER
The Colour Wheel
A review of terms associated with the study of color as an element of art: spectrum, hue, color wheel, primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors, complementary colors, and analogous colors.
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Mix Colors Properly
A quick review of the color wheel and some tips on how to mix colors with paint.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating White Light: What Colors Make Up White Light?
Two different hands-on activities that explore white light and the colors that make it up. In one activity students will create white light by using a color wheel. In the other activity students discover the colors that make white light...