Complete site on using color in art. Includes the history of color, psychology of color, color perspective, and how color changes depending on the medium used. Includes activities to help understand how to use color in your art.

Six activities sure to engage students of any age! Interactive games and puzzles let you play with color and create your own unique designs!

You'll find a wealth of resources at this site dedicated to color! Easy-to-read discussions can be found on topics ranging from the science of light to complementary colors and the color wheel. All special terms are highlighted and...

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...

Make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. Change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or filter white light. View the light as a solid beam, or see the individual photons.

A great introduction to color theory with colorful illustrations and examples.

An indexing page from Georgia State University for a variety of other pages associated with color vision. Pages are filled with meaningful graphics and thorough explanations.

This game has been built to show students that they can make any color they want by mixing different amounts of red, blue and green.

Presents explanation of local color.

York University provides an index page to several other pages on the topic of color and color vision. The pages are part of an online "book." Many graphics and explanations.

A Shockwave movie which allows users to mix varying colors of light and observe the effect upon the appearance of a circle. Accompanied by a "To Do and Notice" section and a "What's Going On?" section. Excellent!

This site from Georgia State University discusses the meaning of the terms hue, saturation and brightness. Thorough, meaningful explanations and outstanding graphics.

[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...

Students will summarize a Leo Lionni story through drawing and writing. Students will also mix the three primary colors to make secondary colors.

A quick review of the color wheel and some tips on how to mix colors with paint.

In this classroom lab activity, students will experiment with mixing the primary colors together: red, yellow, and blue, to determine what new colors may be observed.

For this activity, students are asked to mix paints that match a muted color they choose, in order to create a formula for the color. Other students then try to recreate their color.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how cooking causes changes in matter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an elementary primer to mixing colors in art and is a great resource for beginning artists with activity pages for kids to demonstrate their understanding of primary and secondary colors.

Follow the rules and see if you can solve this problem about 3 different color tile arrangements. As always the solutions is available on this one page website.

In this activity, students solve a problem involving mixing of paint colors. They use color charts to determine the fractional parts and percentages of colors needed to create tints and shades. [Requires Adobe Reader.]

In this lesson plan, 4th graders will learn about the impressionistic painter, Claude Monet. Students will learn how to paint fuzzy (up and down strokes) while mixing tints, creating the illusion of water. They will also learn to do...