Art Challenge: Color Wheel!

Create a Color Wheel from Everyday Objects

Your art assignment this week is to create a color wheel from various objects you can find around your home.  This can be adapted to younger grades by using just the primary and secondary colors.  I want to challenge my 2nd-5th graders to have the tertiary colors (red-violet, red-orange, blue-green, blue-violet, yellow-green, yellow-orange)!

​Begin your color wheel with the primary colors (red, yellow, blue) in a triangle.  Then add the secondary colors between.  Remember, the secondary colors go between the two primary colors that are used to make them.  After you add the secondary colors, fill in the gaps with the tertiary colors.  You do not need to put anything in the middle of your color wheel.  The more objects around, the better!  You need to include at least two of each color.

I used a few cat toys in my color wheel, and my cat Dottie didn't want to share them!  Here's a sweet picture of her helping.

We had so much fun doing this at my house, and it was more challenging than I thought it would be!