Color Wheel Umbrella

Make a color wheel umbrella to learn the basics of colors and color mixing.	Safety Tips Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors. Keep the glue gun out of young children's reach. Watch out for this sign . It means an adult's help is needed for the particular step.
Materials White construction paper Styrofoam board or cardboard Play dough or salt dough Plastic bottle cap Wooden dowel Colored drinking straw Big plastic bead Poster paint Paint brushes Compass or any object to make a circle Pencil Ruler White glue Scissors Scotch tape Glue gun Things to decorate the umbrella with: stickers, sequins, glitter glue, craft foam shapes

Steps

	1.	Draw a big circle on white construction paper approximately 1 ft. in diameter.
	2.	Divide the circle into seven equal wedges by drawing lines radiating from the center. Now you have something that looks like a wheel (or a pizza).
	3.	Cut out the wheel. Make a slit following one spoke of the wheel, all the way through the center.
	4.	Fold one wedge adjacent to the slit inwards. Your wheel now looks like a pizza missing a slice.
	5.	It's time to paint your wheel. Prepare six colors: the three primary colors red, yellow and blue; and the three secondary colors orange, green and purple. You can use ready-made paint or you can mix your own secondary colors.
	6.	Paint your color wheel using the six colors in your palette. A real color wheel will have the colors in this order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Did you notice that these colors are also the colors of the rainbow?
	7.	Use a dowel for the umbrella's handle or connect two sticks by taping them together on one end.
	8.	Use a glue gun to anchor one end of the stick inside a plastic bottle cap.
	9.	Fill the bottle cap with play dough, clay or salt dough. This helps secure the stick in place.
	10.	Insert a colored drinking straw through the dowel, all the way through the dough-filled bottle cap. Stretch the scrunchy part of the straw if it has one.
	11.	Cut out a 5-inch diameter disk from Styrofoam board, card board or box board. Punch a small hole at the center.
	12.	Insert the tip of the dowel through the center of the disk and slide the disk down until it reaches the top end of the drinking straw.
	13.	Once dry, decorate your color wheel with stickers, glitter glue, sequins or small craft foam shapes. You can also draw on it if you like.
	14.	Unfold the unpainted wedge of your color wheel. Apply glue on the entire surface of this wedge.
	15.	Turn your color wheel into a cone shape by overlapping the unpainted wedge behind the wedge adjacent to the slit .
	16.	Insert the tip of your umbrella handle through the apex of the color wheel cone. A small part of the dowel should protrude from the top of the umbrella. You can trim the dowel if it's too long.
	17.	You may insert a big bead or a small ball of clay/play dough at the protruding tip of the dowel.

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