How to make a color wheel collage

How to make a color wheel collage

Kids and adults love to rip, cut and glue paper. This guide will show you how to turn junk mail, old magazines and other paper scraps into a pretty collage of a color wheel. It is a good way to teach children about primary and secondary colors or just to have fun making a nice work of art.

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    Materials: Junk mail, paper scraps or old magazines Paper glue Scissors Optional: colored pencils or markers
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    Trace the outline of a round object that is the same size you want your color wheel to be. Cut out the circle
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    Fold the circle in half
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    Bring the right edge of the half circle over to the left about 1/3 of the way
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    Bring the left side over and adjust the 2 flaps until they are equal in size Crease the edges
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    Unfold the circle. There should be 6 creases. The primary colors are red, yellow and blue. There will one in each triangle with a space between them. You can mark the top and bottom side triangle to remember where to place them. See the picture
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    The secondary colors are the ones you get when you mix 2 primary colors. They are placed between the colors that are used to make them. Mark purple in the triangle between the red and blue triangles. Mark green in the triangle between the blue and yellow triangles Mark orange in the triangle between the red and yellow triangles See the picture for reference
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    Glue the circle to the background paper
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    Rip or cut out the primary and secondary colors from your junk mail, magazines or scrap paper.
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    Result
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    Glue paper of matching colors inside the triangles.
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    Continue overlapping and gluing until you have filled all the triangles. Enjoy!