Playdough Color Wheels

Every child loves to play with Playdough. This activity is a great hands-on way for children  yo learn the color wheel while playing with Playdough.  I have also included extra instructions to add the tertiary colors for making the project more advanced for older children.

What you will need:

1 container of red Playdough

1 container of yellow Playdough

1 container of blue Playdough

Instructions:

Divide each color into 2 equal balls.

Divide 1 ball into 1/2.

The other ball will not be mixed with other colors & will be used to represent the primary colors.

Mix one 1/2 ball of red with a 1/2 ball of yellow to make orange.

Mix one 1/2 ball of yellow with a 1/2 ball of blue to make green.

Mix one 1/2 ball of blue with a 1/2 ball of red to make purple.

Help your child to place each color in order to make the circle of a color wheel.

Tertiary Colors:

Divide each color into 1/2 again.

Mix one 1/2 ball of red with a 1/2 ball of orange to make red-orange.

Mix one 1/2 ball of orange with a 1/2 ball of yellow to make yellow-orange.

Mix one 1/2 ball of yellow with a 1/w ball of green to make yellow-green.

Mix one 1/2 ball of green with a 1/2 ball of blue to make blue-green.

Mix one 1/2 ball of blue with a 1/2 ball of purple to make blue-violet.

Mix one 1/2 ball of purple with a 1/2 ball of red to make red-violet.

Help your child to place each color in order to make the circle of a color wheel.