Color Families

Guiding Questions:
• What is a chart?
• What are the primary colors?
• What are the secondary colors?
• What is a color family?


Objectives/Goals:
• Learn to make a color chart
• Learn about primary colors and secondary colors
• How to make secondary colors
• What is a “color family?”


Activities:
• Make a color chart like this one showing primary colors and secondary
colors
• Turn the circle into creatures
• Separate a pack of 24 sharpies into color families
• Color each creature with the matching group of colors (color families)


Vocabulary:
• Primary colors: red, blue, yellow
• Secondary colors: purple, green, orange
• Color family- A group of like/similar colors