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Two Layer Painting

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
With a little extra tag board and some tempera paint, learners can explore warm and cool colors. They create a two layered drip painting where they focus on mixing both cool and warm colors to achieve a fascinating effect. 
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National Gallery of Canada

Transformation

For Teachers K - 3rd
Create colorful cool or warm butterflies with simple materials. Class members draw their designs, spray the marker to diffuse the colors, and attach pipe cleaners to form the shape of a butterfly with antennae. Individuals must be able...
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National Gallery of Canada

Home Sweet Home

For Teachers 4th - 6th
What are your pupils' homes like? Incorporate their homes into a drawing lesson. Using an enlarged photograph, class members draw a grid so they can easily split their drawing in half. The final product should demonstrate cool colors,...
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App
Spur Design

PrestoBingo Colors

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Open children's eyes to the wonderful world of colors with a fun interactive game. From red, blue, and green to garnet, sapphire, and chartreuse, this resource engages young students in learning about all sorts of different colors.
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Warm Colors vs Cool colors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss the difference between warm and cool colors. They discuss things such as mood, seasons. Also, students take an imaginary trip inside of their bedrooms to figure out their bedroom is warm or cool in color. Students...
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"Warm and Cool Picasso"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a really neat looking project that explores warm, cool, and neutral colors. First the class talks about color families, then they check out Cubism, and finally they get busy making some chunky art. They trace a shape, draw lines...
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Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) - A Cultural Holiday: Color Exploration of Warm and Cool Colors

For Teachers 3rd
Young artists examine pictures from and discuss the holiday Día de los Muertos. The symbolic skull showcases the use of warm and cool colors. Color exploration allows learners to use coordinating colors to create two paper...
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Tissue Paper Designs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the colors in the color wheel and complete a tissue art activity that includes a minimum of three different colors from the color wheel and two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. They discuss...
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Warm/Cool Leaves

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners examine the difference between warm and cool colors. They discuss the basic color wheel, reviewing primary, secondary and complimentary colors. An activity allows students to discover how to mix the warm and cool colors.
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National Gallery of Canada

Artful Emotions

For Teachers K - 3rd
Blue is sad, and red is angry, but why is that? Young artists explore the expression of emotions through art by observing and creating artwork. Starting with a questioning session about images of art, this plan moves into a sculpture...
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How Do you Feel?

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners discover how moods and perceptions can be affected by colors. As a class, they create their own color wheel and identify primary and secondary colors. They draw their own cool and warm color mosaic and discuss how each one of...
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Lab Resource
Colorado State University

What Does Color Have to Do with Cooling?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Study the rate of cooling for objects of different colors. Learners focus on the reflection and absorption of infrared light. Your classes may be surprised to learn objects that heat the slowest also cool the slowest.
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Secrets of Painting

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore colors and shapes. In this art concepts instructional activity, students discuss shapes, lines, and color while creating a variety of abstract designs. The instructions for several art activities are provided. Basic art...
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Color Mixing/ Fantastic Shapes in Paining

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students paint shapes in pictures using all of the colors in the color wheel. For this colors lesson plan, students learn about primary and secondary colors, and create non representational art with the colors.
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How Are Colors Created?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Kids explore primary and secondary colors, as well as the concepts of tints and shade in a series of color lessons. The packet includes detailed directions for how to use BrainPOP Jr. resources to create learning stations where kids...
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A Study of Warm And Cool Colors

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a multimedia painting using warm or cool colors expressively. They demonstrate multimedia techniques in a drawing using pencil, oil pastel and tempera paints. They recognize and discuss mood created by warm and cool...
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National Gallery of Canada

My Abstraction

For Teachers K - 3rd
What makes a color warm, and what makes a color cool? Explore colors and abstract art through an observation activity and an art assignment. Learners look at images and talk about colors before making their own compositions with...
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Warm/cool Colors - Page 4

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars draw pictures that make them feel either warm or cool using only the warm and cool colors.
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Color Theory & Using Layers

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate the color wheel theory and incorporate it into simple sketches on their handheld. The importance of the use of layering and the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary colors is presented in this lesson.
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Critters & Complementary Colors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover how specific colors compliment each other. Students use paints and pictures of animals to create a picture with analogous color harmony. They explain the characteristics of analogous colors.
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Warm and Cool: Sun

For Teachers 1st
First graders think about the sunshine colors and brainstorm the different colors found in the sunshine and identify warm colors and cool colors. They create a painting of a sun usin only warm colors using tempera paint and basic...
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Warm & Cool Coloring

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify, explain and use the basic elements of design. They explore the concept of warm and cool colors in as simple and fun manner. They label one coloring book picture warm and the other picture cool. They color the...
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Curated OER

Mexican Folk Art: Sugar Skulls

For Teachers K - 5th
Scholars use their knowledge of color to create vibrant skulls for Día de los Muertos. A thoughtful discussion brings forth information about the special holiday. A review of cool colors and warm colors prepares learners for the creation...
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Activity
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Color in 3-D: A Nature Design Project

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students view a film about Hans Hofman and consider his use of color and layering. They experiment with the concept of 'push and pull' by using warm and cool color schemes in a tracing of leaves and shapes. Students view their work using...

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