Classroom printables, activities & worksheets
Colours Teaching Resources
An extensive collection of Colour teaching resources. Teaching children about colours is a great way to give them some vocabulary for describing the world around them. Colours can help with sorting and classifying activities. This collection has not only posters and visual displays to use in your classroom, but also a large range of texts with associated questions that encompass learning about colours.
26 teaching
resources for those 'aha' moments
teaching resource
Colours of the Rainbow Poster
A poster to use in the classroom when learning about colours.
teaching resource
Colour Match-up – Worksheet
An activity for students to match colours with black and white settings.
teaching resource
Colour Mixing Poster
A simple poster to display when learning about mixing colours.
teaching resource
Learning Primary and Secondary Colours – Craft Activity
A painting craft activity to help students learn about primary and secondary colours.
teaching resource
Colours - Spanish Language Poster
A poster to use in the classroom when teaching the names for popular colours.
teaching resource
Primary, Secondary, Warm and Cool Colour Worksheets
A set of worksheets to use in the classroom to consolidate knowledge of primary, secondary, warm and cool colours.
teaching resource
Colourful Chameleon Template
A blank chameleon template that is ideal to use as an art activity.
teaching resource
Colourful Chameleon Art Activity
An art activity perfect for exploring, colour, texture and pattern.
teaching resource
Colour Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'colour' as an art element.
teaching resource
Identifying Colours - Sorting Activity
A fun sorting game for students to play when learning the primary and secondary colours.
teaching resource
12 Part Colour Wheel and Colour Theory
A warm/cool colour wheel featuring the 12 primary, secondary and tertiary colours.
teaching resource
Blob Colour Charts
Blobs of colour with the names displayed to assist students in learning the different colours and their names.
teaching resource
6 Part Colour Wheel and Colour Theory Worksheets
A set of colour theory worksheets featuring the 6 primary and secondary colours.
teaching resource
6-Part Colour Wheel and Colour Theory
A colour wheel featuring the 6 primary and secondary colours.
teaching resource
12-Part Colour Wheel and Colour Theory worksheets
A set of warm/cool colour wheel worksheets featuring the 12 primary, secondary and tertiary colours.
teaching resource
Reading Colours - Racing Edition
Consolidate reading colours and ordinal numbers with this worksheet.
teaching resource
Ice Cream Cone Colours - No Capitals
Kids love colour and ice cream... so we put them together!
lesson plan
Working with Colour – Mix It Up
A 90-minute lesson in which students will create an artwork using complementary, harmonious and monochromatic colour schemes.
lesson plan
The Element of Colour
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how colour is used to express feeling and evoke a response in visual arts.
lesson plan
Working with Colour – Marvellous Monochrome
A 90-minute lesson in which students will create a rainforest scene using tints and shades of green.
lesson plan
Assessment – Cylinder Sculpture
An assessment task in which students demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the use of colour in visual arts.
lesson plan
Using Colour
A 60-minute lesson in which students investigate colour and how it can be used effectively to convey meaning in visual arts.
lesson plan
What Is Colour?
A 60-minute lesson in which students are introduced to the use of colour in visual arts.
