12/11/2011

Mixing Colors

We all know the primary colors are: Red, Yellow and Blue but did you know you can get the other color of the rainbow by mixing 2 primary colors together. Okay, so you probably knew that but do your kiddos?? They will think mixing colors is AWESOME and its simple, inexpensive, not to messy and fun!!

Mixing for the Kids
You will need: 9 plastic cups, Red, Yellow and Blue food coloring and water

1- Fill up 6 of the 9 cups with water
2- Add each color of food coloring (2 drops) to 2 cups (Leaving you with 2 of each color and 3 empty cups)
3- Mix away! Example: pour the yellow and red together to get orange
(Refer to the picture below for mixing fun!)


You can also just fill 6 cups with water and add dye straight to cups but I thought that would be to messy for my toddler. After we made all the colors of the rainbow we lined them up to look like a rainbow...


then I pulled out some skittles and had my kiddo match colors by putting the skittle in the matching cup.

when we ran out of skittles i let my little guy stir it up and then

drink it...it tasted good a little like kool-aid

6 comments:

  1. You girls do such a great job! I totally follow your blog and use some ideas for my preschool. Thanks! It is fun to be able to share ideas. Cute cute cute this week!

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  2. What a great and fun learning activity!!! would love it if you could share this here -

    http://www.mamamiasheart2heart.com/2012/01/sharing-saturday.html

    Have a great weekend!!!
    ~MiaB

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  3. How fun and clever!! I would love it if you would be willing to link up to our party going on now. Thanks
    http://kadie-sevenalive.blogspot.com/2012/01/link-it-up-thursday-2.html#more

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  4. What a fun way to teach kids about mixing & making colors! Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Have a great week,
    Beth =-)

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  5. Thanks so much for sharing this great learning experience with us at Sharing Saturday. hope you have a great week. looking forward to seeing more of your posts :)

    ~MiaB
    www.mamamiasheart2heart.com

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  6. I love this idea! Your blog is awesome! I can't wait to read through more and get some great ideas for teaching my kids and becoming more organized:) Thanks again for being willing to share things that you have found to be helpful!

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