I bring to your attention a tutorial on creating a poster to explore the names of colors and shades with your child. After all, there are tourmaline, pervenche colours....
My daughter Ulyana loves drawing and I bought a pink frame NITYA at IKEA and paper. Then I cut out circles of colored cards. Here is how a group of blue colours looks like:
Use Wikipedia's "List of colors", there are all sorts of "asparagus", "amaranth", "arsenic", "gamboge"!)))
I decided to place the cirlces in groups - by red, yellow, etc.:
Then put the names of the groups and of each color:
I also decided to draw a small table of mixing colors and used watercolour for that:
Allow the paint to dry, insert into frame and hang our poster in a convenient location. I hung it over the table:
Ulyana liked this idea very much :)
And now a few useful ideas. On this poster you can draw more options for color mixing or to make actually a separate poster:
For older kids, add different watercolor techniques:
That's all! Help your kids develop the imagination and give them the freedom of creativity! ;-):-)