Mixing it Up - The Color Wheel

Summary
This lesson introduces the primary and secondary colors to young children and explains how the colors relate to each other.

Objectives
• The children will be able to identify primary and secondary colors.

• The children will be able to explain and demonstrate how secondary colors are created.

Suggested Grades
Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade

Excerpt
Today we are going to talk about colors. Look around you and see how many colors you can see. Let?s write them all down. We have red and blue, green and yellow, orange and purple. Some of these colors are called primary colors and some are called secondary colors.

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