Topic: Colors and Mixing Them
Books: Mouse Paint
Objectives
•Learn the primary colors (red, blue, yellow)
•Learn how to make secondary colors (mix two primaries)
•Make predictions about what happens when mixing two colors
Vocabulary
•Primary color—a color that cannot be made by mixing other colors
•Secondary color—a color that can be created by mixing two primary colors
Supplies Needed
•Transparent, colored discs (homemade)*
•3 water bottles
•3 clear cups
•Water
•Food coloring
•Marker
•Colored salt dough
•Bags to send dough home in
Colored water, ready for the activity
Large Group Activities
•Talk about colors with partially transparent, colored discs
•Compile a list of students’ favorite colors
•Demonstrate mixing colors by overlapping colored discs
•Read Mouse Paint
•Put out 3 water bottles, filled with water, add red, yellow and blue food coloring to create primary colors
•Allow students to make predictions about what will happen when water from two bottles is combined.
•Pour water into clear cups to mix colors
•Discuss mixing colors with students
Talking about the primary colors
Showing the mixed colors
Isaiah loved mixing colors
Table Time Activity
•Talk about mixing colors
•Hand out 6 balls salt dough to each student, 2 balls of each primary color
•Talk students through mixing a pair of colors to create another color, then allow students to finish mixing the colors together
•Give students time to play with the salt dough before putting it in bags to take home
The three primary colors, along with the secondaries that we created by mixing two colors
*I made my transparent circles by printing red, blue and yellow circles on a transparency sheet.
**Pictures are from doing the activities at home with Isaiah
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