Primary and Secondary Colors: Color Rainbow

Encourage your students to explore the color wheel with this hands-on activity that has the primary colors transform in front of their eyes.

Grade

Preschool

Subject

Fine arts

Colors

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to see how colors transform when different combinations are mixed together. They will also learn about making colors lighter by adding white.

Introduction

(5 minutes)

Call your students into a group and tell them that they are going to learn about making different colors.
Inform your students that when two or more colors are mixed, they make a different color.
Tell them that they will see how red, yellow, and blue mix to make a new color.