Instead of printing on colored printer paper, children can cut the colors out of construction paper. The important connection of primary, secondary and even analogous colors is evident in all types of art.

It wasn’t until many years later that I fully appreciated what I had learned from her. I was very fortunate to have had a fantastic, dedicated art teacher in my elementary school. The children can then match up the color to the triangle on the labeled color wheel paper and glue it in place. Have the children trade around the tringles until the have one of each of the primary and secondary colors. Next, hand each child a pre-printed page in either red, orange, yellow, green, blue or purple and scissors so that they can cut out the circle and each of the 6 triangles. This page has each of the primary and secondary colors written in a tringle. Select the unlabeled Color Wheel Template and print at least one copy on each of the primary and secondary colors.įirst, give each child a printable Color Wheel that is labeled with the primary and secondary colors.Print as many copies as you need of the labeled Color Wheel Template on white printer paper.Else, the teacher may need to cut apart a few of the pages. This works well if you have a group of 6, 12 or 18 children (multiples of 6). The children can share the triangles until they have one of each color which they can then paste to the labeled color wheel paper. The teacher (parent) can cut the triangles apart, or each child can be given a sheet of paper and instructed to cut apart the 6 same-color triangles. These printouts can be used for many classroom projects and will help children learn about primary and secondary colors.Ī suggested activity is to print the color wheel template on each of the 3 primary and 3 secondary colors of printer paper. For this post I’ve included two templates for a printable color wheel.

Color wheels primary and secondary