Mixing Primary & Secondary Colors for Kids

Video Transcript

"The first project that we're going to work today, you can use anything to make it, markers, water colors, pastels, crayons, colored pencils, the usual things you have around the house for kids art projects. I'm going to start with a black marker and you can just use computer paper and we're going to make a little drawing, and what this is going to do is show us how the colors are constructed and how they go together. And, this will help kids memorize the colors in an easy way. The first thing that I'm going to draw, almost to the top of the page, is I'm going to make a square and I'm doing it in marker so you can see it but you could do it in pencil and we're going to make a triangle with these squares. So, I'm moving this square down here at the bottom and I'm going to put one over here now, what we're going to do with those is color in our primary colors and I'm going to use a marker to start with. If you have the kids lay out their colors, and we just want these primaries, these will work fine. And, while I'm coloring this I'm going to tell you about art materials. It really is a great idea to get a good brand because part of thing you end up doing is struggling with the materials when you use something that's not as good. I'm using Crayola, they really do know about kids art work and how much fun it is to. This color chart that we're making is to help kids realize how you mix colors in a very concrete way. So, you can see what I'm doing, I'm drawing an arrow to show the colors we're going to mix together. We know those because we just saw that with the dye. OK, if I mix the red and yellow together I'm going to make a circle and the circle is going to represent our secondary color and if I make the blue and yellow go together, we know what we're going to get. Alright, so here is our color chart, now we can fill those in and this is a really good exercise for kids. OK, the red and the yellow makes orange and the reason I'm using marker is it colors quickly and you'll find that, and it's fun for kids to try different materials and then you learn, do I like oil pastels, you know, markers are always fast. Colored pencils are always going to be slow, but some kids love them. I happen to be a colored pencil artist myself, and I have a lot of art work that's hanging in art shows and libraries and things done with colored pencil but they take a long time to do. Alright, here's our basic color chart that we just learned with the dye of the colors that go together. Now in the middle of those I'm going to put some triangles and what that's going to do is tell me that there are some colors in between and as we get going with mixing color we'll find out what those are."