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Exploring Neighborhoods through Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore neighborhoods. For this color and social studies cross-curriculum lesson, students listen to Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, then compare and contrast neighborhoods. Students mix primary colors to make...
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Learning about Tint and Shade- Van Gogh

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore tint, hues, and shades of color. In this art and color lesson, students observe and discuss Van Gogh's artistic style. Young scholars mix paints to create a single hue background and add details to paint a...
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Secrets of Painting

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners explore colors and shapes. In this art concepts lesson, students discuss shapes, lines, and color while creating a variety of abstract designs. The instructions for several art activities are provided. Basic art vocabulary and a...
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Colors

For Teachers K - 5th
Students learn about the Impressionist painters' use of color and how it connected to early nineteenth century scientific theories about color. In this colors lesson plan, students explore combinations of primary and secondary colors,...
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Color The Shapes In The Shape House

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this color the shapes in the shape house worksheet, students utilize the primary colors red, blue, green and yellow to color the shape house as directed.
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Color Mixing Cookie Exercise

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore how primary colors create secondary colors. They incorporate their knowledge of primary and secondary colors by creating various colors of frosting. Given the cookie shape, they complete a decoration plan for...
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Horse of a Different Color: An Introduction to Color in the Visual Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how artists use color to create a sense of depth in a two-dimensional space. They view and analyze prints, complete worksheets, and write a paragraph on how color is used to draw the viewer's eye to a central figure.
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Primary Color Mixing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify secondary colors that are created by mixing primary color paint combinations, and make paintings of their own.
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Play Doh Color Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify primary and secondary colors, and construct color wheels, using Play Doh in the three primary colors.
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Color Farm

For Teachers Pre-K - K
A very basic presentation on color recognition is in this PowerPoint for very young learners. They are shown a cartoon drawing of animals that are found on a farm and must state what color they are drawn in.
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Color Mixing Trophy Fish

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars compare colors. In this color lesson, students determine which colors are primary and which are secondary. Young scholars investigate rainbows and create a piece of art organizing colors as they appear in a rainbow.
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Thanksgiving Turkey Napkins

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore painting.  In this Thanksgiving art lesson, students trace their hands on 4 cloth napkins sent from home and use fabric paint to decorate them as hand print turkeys.
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Toothpick Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review primary colors and practice making straight lines. In this visual arts lesson, students paint simple shapes as large as a toothpick, using specific primary colors. During the construction of the shapes students are...
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Mixing Primary and Secondary Colors

For Teachers K - 6th
Students use Play Doh to make a color wheel. In this color wheel lesson plan, students use primary and secondary colors of Play Doh to make a color wheel.
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Painting a Neighborhood

For Teachers K
Students explore the concept of neighborhoods and identify primary and secondary colors. In this colors and community lesson, students read the book Harold and the Purple Crayon and then discuss the concept of a neighborhood. Students...
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Primary and Secondary Colors

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore primary and secondary colors. In this art lesson, students use jars of colored water to create the secondary colors.
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I Can Mix Colors!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood mixing colors worksheet, students trace the words red, blue, and yellow. They also color blanks palettes with the appropriate colors as they identify primary colors a mix them to create green, orange, and purple.
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Properties of Color

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the properties of primary color and investigate what happens when primary colors are mixed. They listen to the story The Crayon Box That Talked and list the colors. They experiment mixing primary colors and...
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Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They listen to a...
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Boogie Woogie Colors - Mondrian Painting

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create art in the style of Piet Mondrian. They review works by Mondrian, identify primary and secondary colors and then use construction paper, cut strips of paper and paint to create a piece of art that incorporates geometric...
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Dreaming with Marc Chagall

For Teachers 7th
Students scrutinize the early twentieth-century artists who dealt with expressionism and abstraction, especially Marc Chagall. This four lesson unit examines the life and work of Chagall and supports the student creation of works similar...
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Color Wheel

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders mix different combinations of the three primary colors to create the three secondary colors, then create new colors by mixing two or more different colors. They identify the colors they create.
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Primary Hands - Page 1

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine how there are only three main colors that make up all the other colors in the world.
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Experimenting with Colors

For Teachers K
Students experiment with mixing primary colors together using frosting and pretzel sticks.