A fun story to present when introducing elementary students to the Color Wheel.

1. The Story of The Color
Wheel (Part 1)
Written By Ms. W
Illustrated by Clipart

2. Chapter 1
The Primary Colors
Once upon a time, no colors
existed.

3. Then, all of a sudden, the first
three colors POPPED into
space!

4. Their names were Yellow, Blue, and
Red. Since they were not made from
any other colors, they named
themselves the “Primary Colors”.

5. The Primary Colors became really good friends and
colored the stars in the universe.
But soon they started to get lonely. Blue
became even bluer.

6. Chapter 2
The Secondary Colors
Yellow offered poor Blue a piece of its heart. Blue decided to
let Yellow have a piece of its heart as well.

7. POP! Out of the hearts came Baby
Green! Yellow and Blue were so happy!

8. “I wonder what will happen if Red and I
combine our hearts too?” wondered
Blue.

9. POP! Baby Violet was born!

10. Then Red and Yellow combined their
hearts, too. And guess what happened?

11. POP! Baby Orange was born!

12. Because they came second, the Primary
Colors named their babies the “Secondary
Colors”.

13. Then the six colors began to paint the world.

14. Chapter 3
The Complementary Colors
After watching the world and the
people that lived on it for some time,
the six colors decided what their
favorite holidays were.

15. Red and Green liked
Christmas.
Blue and Orange liked
Halloween.
Yellow and Violet liked
Easter.
These pairs of colors got along, so they called
themselves “Complementary Colors.”

16. Chapter 4
The Color Wheel
Then the colors
created one
huge circle.
This huge
circle became
known as the
color wheel.

17. The
Compleme
ntary
Colors like
to be
across
from each
other on
the wheel.

18. The Primary
Colors
spread
themselves
out evenly.
So do the
Secondary
Colors.

19. When read
clockwise, the
colors of the Color
Wheel go in rainbow
order.

20. And that is the
end of the first
part of our
story!
The End!

21. Who’s your partner?
.

22. .

23. .

24. The Story of The Color
Wheel (Part 2)
Written By Ms. W
Illustrated by Clipart

25. Chapter 5
The Tertiary Colors
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green,
Blue and Violet were very
happy for a long time.

26. Most of the world had color, but some
parts did not. Soon, the six colors
wanted to paint the rest of the world.

27. Blue remembered that he, Yellow, and
Red had blended their colors to create
Green, Orange, and Violet.

28. “Maybe we can mix our colors even
MORE!” Blue exclaimed. “Then we can
use the new colors to color the rest of the
world!”

29. Just then, six white doves flew up from a
tree. Eager to help the colors, they
offered to color the rest of the world.

30. “But how can the doves do that?” Red
wondered. “They are plain white.”

31. Then all the colors smiled at the same
time, for they had all thought of the same
idea.

32. They had the six doves line up.

33. Red and Orange threw part of their color
onto the first dove. The dove became
Red-Orange!

34. Orange and Yellow threw part of their
color onto the second dove. The dove
became Yellow-Orange!

35. Yellow and Green threw part of their
color onto the third dove. The dove
became Yellow-Green!

36. Blue and Green threw part of their color
onto the fourth dove. The dove became
Blue-Green!

37. Blue and Violet threw part of their color
onto the fifth dove. The dove became
Blue-Violet!

38. Violet and Red threw part of their color
onto the sixth and smallest dove. The
dove became Red-Violet!

39. The six doves were so happy with their
new colors. They painted the rest of the
world.

40. Then the six colors decided to add the doves to their color
wheel! They named them the “Tertiary Colors” because they
came third.

41. Chapter 6
The colors
and the
doves
enjoyed
spending
time together.
They liked to
hang out in
groups of
three.
Triads

42. They hung
out in triads.
Triads are
groups of
three colors
that are
EVENLY
SPREAD on
the color
wheel.

43. The Primary
Colors are
one triad.
The
secondary
colors are
another.

44. Yellow-Green,
Blue-Violet,
and RedOrange are a
triad.
So are RedViolet, BlueGreen, and
Yellow-Orange.

45. The twelve colors lived happily ever after. In fact, they are still
alive today in everything you see.