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Color Web Sites for Young Kids

Make a Splash with Color

San Jose's The Tech Museum has a nifty online exhibit about color. You'll learn how to describe a color based on its hue, saturation, and brightness. As they explain it, hue helps you tell which bananas in the bunch are ripe. Saturation is the color difference between your chocolate milk and your sister's. And brightness tells us the difference between plain white bread and burnt toast.
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on 10+
5 stars

Carmine's Introduction to Color

It doesn't matter whether you're picking up crayons for the first time or you're a portrait painting pro, you will find something of interest at this Web page. Explore color mixing and matching activities and learn how the "mood" of a painting changes if you magically switch to different colors. Learn about proportions and portrait techniques. Little children will enjoy Carmine's color wheel game, while bigger ones (and adults, too) will be fascinated with chasing down the evil Dr. Gray and his Dechromatizers!
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on 8+
5 stars

Arthur: Welcome to D.W.'s Art Studio

Select your online brush, choose a color, and you're good to go have fun with the coloring book pages here. Based on Marc Brown's "Arthur" series characters, your artist in residence is D.W. She'll explain how you can use the paint features as well as the rubber stamping tools. You can also choose to clear the canvas and "draw" on a blank screen.
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on 5+
5 stars

Mixing Colors

Click the rainbow to begin, and follow the audio directions to create color-mixing adventures of your own. You will need Shockwave to play the games.
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on 5+
5 stars

Kaleidoscope Painter

We won't spoil the surprise! Just click and drag your mouse slowly across the screen and watch what happens. If you just want to relax and watch, click on Auto. Note that you can select your brush size.
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on 3+
5 stars

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