Color Wheel Activities

The color wheel is a way of demonstrating how different primary, secondary, or tertiary colors relate and mix with each other. One of the easiest things in nature to relate a color wheel to is the rainbow: The different colors of light (starting with primary colors: red, yellow, and blue) shine through and overlap in the water vapor, causing them to mix and create new (secondary and tertiary) colors. Below are some activities to explore mixing colors - the blank pie charts can be filled in with paint, markers, pencil crayons or crayons, and the other activities have their materials listed.