There are plenty of resources out there for teaching colors. The great thing about colors, is that most of the lessons out there for teaching the colors in English could be used in Spanish class.
The following are a bunch of ideas that could be used.
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Andy Mason has a song on his album Play It Again! called Los Colores. My students loved this song. I did not teach it to them outright. This song is really great because it repeats twice and you do not have to know the song to be able to sing it (you have to hear it to understand.) Instead I used it as background music while they were doing seat work. After playing it after so many lessons, students learned the names of colors without me even teaching them.
Videos to use:
Lauren Peacock Bruzonic wrote a book called Español con Cindi y Sus Amigos which has a bunch of poems and songs that are all in Spanish. The most useful one I found was a song about a caterpiller who has different colors on his body. The song is very catchy and the video's illustrations do a great job telling the story of Tutu.
After watching this video our students learned a couple of the colors. I then had them color in those colors on Tutu. On this day students worked on 'rojo' and 'verde.' I left those colors blank and had students color them in based on the song. I also asked students what colors they were coloring.
This video called 'Los Colores' is great because the subject matter is so simple. Every page starts blank and the colors are colored in as the colors names are called out. I like it because you can play it without sound and have students call out the colors themselves. The students really like the animation at the end of each page.
This video called 'Spanish: Colors and Shapes at the park' is short and sweet. I really like the way the speaker picks a noun and describes that noun with the color. It is not a very long video but a great refresher with some nice new vocabulary.
The website Story Place has two nice interactive games/videos that talk about the colors in Spanish. Both games use a character called La Rana Freda. In the first video, Freda asks you to tell her the name of the color of several objects. After you answer she jumps and colors that color into the rainbow. In the second game, she asks you the color of different objects and you must choose from different colors and decide which is the correct color. Both games are essentially the same, however they are presented very differently and could be used on different days.
This video titled simply 'Los Colores' is a very simple video that has crayons coloring different objects that are the same color as the crayon. My only problem is that the names for the colors weren't the same as I taught my students (i.e. purpula vs. morado and naranja vs. anaranjado.) The video is also fairly long for my short class period. However, I really enjoy the background music and decided it would be great for early finishers to watch because a student could start watching at any moment and still get practice of the colors out of it.
The video called 'Hablemos Espanol: Colores' has students repeat the colors and then asks in English "what color is this?" As the video continues the question changes to "que color es?" The video's images don't always correspond to things that you would normally associate with that color (i.e. a purple teddy bear, and brown oreo cookie.)