Colors plays an important role in our lives. It has the power to excite, inspire and even remind us of something important. That's why knowing how colors work and what happens when two colors are mixed together is an important theory of art that kids should learn while they are young.
Get messy and creative while teaching your kids the exciting world of color mixing and introducing them to the world of primary, secondary and tertiary colors with these five fun activities. Let's begin!
Get messy and creative while teaching your kids the exciting world of color mixing and introducing them to the world of primary, secondary and tertiary colors with these five fun activities. Let's begin!
Play directly with paint
Of course, when teaching kids how to mix 2 different colors, you have to start with the basics, and by basics we mean the three primary colors namely yellow, red and blue.
On a paint pallet or any flat, clean surface that you have, combine 2 primary colors to yield a secondary color. Similar to the illustration below, mix blue and yellow on a dish to create green. Use a paint brush or even just a stick to mix both colors together.
On a paint pallet or any flat, clean surface that you have, combine 2 primary colors to yield a secondary color. Similar to the illustration below, mix blue and yellow on a dish to create green. Use a paint brush or even just a stick to mix both colors together.
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Engage your kids in the activity by letting them create the other color combinations like red and yellow and red and blue! Once you are done mixing all primary colors together, move up to secondary colors and then the tertiary colors.
Get colorful with food coloring
If you find that using actual paints is quite expensive for this activity, use food coloring! We promise that the activity will be just as fun!
The materials that you will need will be water, containers, cups and food coloring in blue, yellow and red. When making your colored liquids, make sure to use equal portions of water.
If you can find some large droppers similar to the illustration below, that will be great in making the activity even more fun for the kids! If not, then small medicinal droppers that are widely available in drugstores will do just fine.
The materials that you will need will be water, containers, cups and food coloring in blue, yellow and red. When making your colored liquids, make sure to use equal portions of water.
If you can find some large droppers similar to the illustration below, that will be great in making the activity even more fun for the kids! If not, then small medicinal droppers that are widely available in drugstores will do just fine.
Photo from Play to Learn Preschool
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Mix colors using diagrams
Remember those Venn diagrams you used to study back when you were in grade school? Your knowledge about how it works will come in extra handy when teaching kids the beauty of color mixing.
On a sheet of paper and using a black marker, create Venn diagrams using two overlapping circles and let the kids make their color combinations using paint, crayons or oil pastels. The part where the circles intersect will yield the brand new color combination.
On a sheet of paper and using a black marker, create Venn diagrams using two overlapping circles and let the kids make their color combinations using paint, crayons or oil pastels. The part where the circles intersect will yield the brand new color combination.
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As soon as they are done mixing primary colors together, let them create secondary and tertiary colors by adding more circles in the diagram.
Explore colors with hands
Much like finger painting, immerse your kids in color mixing by letting them create new color combinations using their hands! It will be a bit messy, but there is definitely no shortage of fun in this kind of color mixing activity.
Again, start with the primary colors first before letting them create new colors from the secondary and tertiary mix. With an activity this hands-on, we're pretty sure the kids will grasp the concept of color combinations in no time. There are plenty of non-toxic paint that you can easily buy from bookstores for this activity.
Again, start with the primary colors first before letting them create new colors from the secondary and tertiary mix. With an activity this hands-on, we're pretty sure the kids will grasp the concept of color combinations in no time. There are plenty of non-toxic paint that you can easily buy from bookstores for this activity.
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Perform a cool color mixing science experiment!
And if you're up to an incredible and fascinating color mixing activity, try this fun experiment! Watch this video for a complete illustration! It's fairly simple and requires very basic materials too.
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