Information

The Colour Wheel

Activities

INFORMATION ABOUT COLOUR

Carmine's Introduction to Colour
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/color1/color1.html

Colour - Information about primary and secondary colours as well as warm colours, cool colours, shades and tints.
http://www.whytownps.sa.edu.au/visarts/colour.htm

Living Colour - Interactive information and activities on many aspects of colour from the Australian Museum Online.
http://www.amonline.net.au/colour/

Colour Palette - Information and interactive activities about colour from the National Gallery of Canada.
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/kids/color/index_e.jsp

How Do You Make Colours? Information about primary and secondary colours, tints and shades.
http://www.mcmichael.com/kidsarea/colours/make.shtml

Colour - Information about primary, secondary and tertiary colours, complementary colours, the colour wheel and tints.
http://website.lineone.net/~peter.saw/lessons/colour.htm

Make a Splash With Color. This site has three sections - talking about colour; the lighter side of colour; and an eye on colour.
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/color/intro/

Colour. This site uses animations to explain concepts of light and colour.
http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=Unit&WCU=116

Color Matters - a comprehensive site about all aspects of colour.
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html

THE COLOUR WHEEL

The Colour Wheel. Click on two primary colours to make a secondary colour.
http://www.norton.org/kids/kids/html/colorwheel/colorwheel.htm

Colour Wheel
http://www.sites.ecosse.net/theartbase/colour%20wheel.htm

Colour Wheel - online game
http://www.toytheater.com/colorwheel.html

ACTIVITIES

Interactive colour matching activity.
http://blackdog.net/games/tots/color-match/index.html

The Colouring Book. Select a picture, a brush size and a colour and use your mouse to paint.
http://www.horizon.ab.ca/barnwell/games/coloringbook/

Interactive Paintbrush. Paint a picture and compare it with the artist's version.
http://www.norton.org/kids/kids/html/paintbrush/paintbrush.htm

Colour Match Madness. Play a colour concentration game.
http://www.crayola.com/kids/games/madness2.cfm

The Color of Words. Time yourself to say the colour words.
http://www.sdc.org.uk/museum/fun/stroop.htm

2002 Jackie Miers

January, 2004