Color Mixing Light Bulbs

Every year I look for a new way to teach color theory.  This year I looked around for inspiration... then a light bulb sparked an idea-haaha.  Colored Light Bulbs! Perfect, they are transparent so having two different colored overlapping light bulbs would make a third color.  We discussed the different parts of a light bulb and the different shapes.

Color Mixing- Overlapping Light Bulbs

After we drew the light bulb shapes we filled them in with the PRIMARY colors -red, yellow, blue.  Where a light bulb overlapped another we had to think... red+yellow = orange, yellow+blue = green, blue+red = purple.

Last but not least we shaded the metal with our pencil and added black broken glass shapes in the background to break up the space and make our colors pop!