We've been doing a lot of painting lately! We recently got some new painting tools (rollers with different shapes and sizes, etc.) which has gotten the kids more interested in experimenting with art.
Today, we did an 'art experiment' and started out with a question: how many colors can we make out of the primary colors blue, red, and yellow? We started out by mixing blue with red - and were pleased to find that it made a pretty dark purple. The children loved the 'magic' of making new colors. Their predictions of what color we'd get out of the original two were often wildly off the mark (brown! green!) but this added to the level of fun and discovery for them.
We followed the same process with red and yellow, and yellow and blue. By this point the children had gotten six colors out of our original three, and were feeling pretty pleased. When they looked at their sketchbooks though, we found that we had gotten a bonus 7th color where the colors had mixed together: brown!
For really little children, color mixing is still something magical and amazing - try it today!
