Use the Color Wheel to Show Kids How to Match Clothes
While preteens can dress themselves, they may be nervous when putting together outfits that their clothes won't match - a fact that they don't want their peers to point out. While anything goes with jeans, this art activity will help kids to coordinate different colors with confidence.Creating a Color Wheel
Provide paints (at least red, yellow, and blue) and paper. Kids should trace a dinner or dessert plate and then use a ruler to divide the circle into twelve equal pie pieces. Paint one section red, skip three sections, paint yellow, skip three sections, and paint blue. These three colors are the primary colors. These three colors (or a combination of any two of them) go together because from these basic colors the other colors are mixed.
Now, either use equal parts red and yellow, yellow and blue, and red and blue to make orange, green, and purple, respectively. Another option is to use pre-mixed, prepared colors. Return to the color wheel. Skip one space after the red and paint orange. Skip one space after the yellow and paint green. Skip one space after the blue and paint purple. (Every other space is still white.) These three colors (or a combination of any two of them) go together in their role as secondary colors.
The spaces in between the painted sections are a mixture of the colors on either side. For example, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. Mix the appropriate colors and paint the white segments.
Analogous Combinations
Analogous colors are colors sitting next to one another on the color wheel. These combinations work because one color helps to make the colors on either side of it. Yellow pairs with orange because yellow mixes with red to make orange.
Analogous colors create dozens of options. Notice the two-color combinations, using both the twelve-color color wheel kids painted as well as two-color combinations created using a six-color color wheel consisting of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
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