Warm and Cool Colours

I usually introduce Primary and Tertiary Colour theory to my Grade 1 students, with colour mixing activities and then revise again in Grade 2 with an extension including Cool and Warm colour tones.

This year during a school camp it became quite obvious that the older students had missed out on this fundamental colour lesson when only a few were able to name the primary colors as part of a trivia quiz.

So colour theory 101 it was in Grades 4-6.
When introducing the concept of warm and colours we took it fairly slowly and simply.
Warm colours: Red, Orange, Yellow
Cool colours: Blue, Green
Sometimes colour: Purple - Red purple (W)
                                          - Blue purple (C)

My Grade 4's loved this excercise!

Warm and Cool Colour Shapes: I found this lesson here http://www.mrsbrownart.com/3rd.htm