Teaching colour mixing can be a challenging task for students but a really important and foundational skill. It’s important to teach colour mixing to inspire your students to play and experiment with the joy of creating new colours. To learn more about teaching colour mixing and my tips for teaching colour mixing keep reading.

There is something so magical about mixing colours of paint together and seeing all the colour combinations you can create. This is why I created some painting resources for teaching colour mixing.

There are lots of ways to teach colour mixing. You are also not limited to the supplies you use to teach colour mixing.

Teaching Colour Mixing Tips

Here are some art supplies for teaching colour mixing:

Food colouring
Tempera paint
Water colour paint
Acrylic paint
Watercolour crayons or pencil crayons
Squares of tissue paper and water
Washable markers and water

It’s important to highlight the terminology for colour mixing like primary colours, secondary colours, analogous colours etc. especially in the high school setting. My colour mixing worksheets highlight these terms as well as teaching them through making a colour wheel.

Teaching Colour Mixing Resources

Try the Free version of Mixing Green and Grey

For free you can see the colour mixing pages, example pages and see the video demos that explain how you can mix various greens and greys!

Mixing Purple

Learn how to mix a variety of purples with the mixing pages, example pages and demo videos.

Try the Mixing Purple Pages here!

Mixing Skin Tones

Learn to mix a diverse range of skin tones. Perfect practice for painting portraits with the colour mixing pages, example pages and video demos.

Try the Mixing Skin Tone Pages here!

Learn about Colour Mixing

Learn about the primary, secondary, tertiary colours as well as complementary colours. Learn about warm and cool colours, making a shade or a tint of a colour, choosing a colour palette for a painting and creating a value scale. There are example pages, colour mixing pages and demo videos.

Try the Colour Mixing Pages here!

If you buy the bundle of colour mixing activities you can save 30% and receive the neutral colour mixing bonus activity.