Colour wheels and moods

Mixing colours

Ages 4-735 minutes8 tasksColours & Shapes

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What we are learning

Build a colour wheel and describe warm and cool colours.

You will need: Coloured pencils or paint, Ruler, A picture book to look at

Warm-up

Which colours feel warm like the sun? Which feel cool like the sea?

Word bank

warmcooloppositecomplementarymoodbrightcalm

1Build the wheel

Colour the six sections in order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.

My colour wheel

Colour wheel

2Warm or cool?

Write W for warm or C for cool.

	warm or cool?
red
blue
orange
green
yellow
purple

3Opposites attract

Opposite colours on the wheel look bright together. Write each pair.

1. opposite of red
2. opposite of blue
3. opposite of yellow

4Sort the pictures

Look at three pictures in a book. Write whether each one uses mostly warm or mostly cool colours.

	mostly warm or cool?	how it makes me feel
picture 1
picture 2
picture 3

5Feelings in colour

Paint or colour two small pictures: one happy, one calm. Explain your colour choices.

Two moods

happy

calm

Why I chose those colours

7Design a poster

Design a small poster for our classroom using one warm and one cool colour only.

My two-colour poster

My poster

8Take it home

Look at your bedroom. Are the colours mostly warm or cool? Write what you notice and how it feels.

My bedroom colours

⭐ Challenge

Find a picture in a book that uses mostly warm colours. How does it make you feel? Now find a cool one and compare.

How did I do?

I can make a colour wheel.
I know warm and cool colours.
I can explain my colour choices.
I can name opposite colours.