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Contact_FullName: Elaine
ideaTo teach my students about mixing colors to create new ones, I paint one of their hands one color and the other hand another color. I then make handprints in the upper left-hand corner and the lower right-hand corner. I then have the children rub their hands together and when the new color is created, they make two handprints in the center of the paper to show what happens when the two original colors are mixed. I then make a book of their colors, laminate it and hang it on the easel so that they can create colors while they are painting, coloring, etc. This is very helpful in teaching children how to create secondary colors. For example: Left hand yellow, right hand red, two hands in the middle make orange.
2-20-01In our sensory table we place a muffin tin filled with different colors of water( use food coloring to make the colors), a large empty container, a clear plastic cup for each child working in the area, and one medicine dropper for each child working in the area. The children take the water with the medicine dropper and add it to the cup to explore the results of mixing colors. When their cup is full or they want to start over they simply empty it into the large container. This activity is fun and easy to clean up.
2-5-01This is a fun color mixing experiment that we do at our preschool. We take four clear film containers and four different color water (food coloring) that are also in a clear plastic cup and we give the children eye droppers and have the children mix the colors. The children are amazed at the colors that they make. A good story to read with this experiment is Mouse Paint and Little Blue and Little Yellow. Happy mixing!
12-6-00For pink week we added red water to white corn starch. (You could use any color) This made pink goop and we talked about mixing red and white to make pink. Then my 3's really loved playing in the pink goop. We also got to talk about liquids and solids since this stuff looks like a liquid but sort of acts like a solid.
10-6-00Color Mixing Discovery Bottles-Color water with food coloring (primary color) and pour into clear soda bottle. Color vegetable oil with powdered tempra (2nd primary) and add to bottle. Super glue the top onto bottle to prevent opening. Colors will mix to form secondary color when shaken, then separate again when undisturbed. My kids also enjoy colored water and clear baby oil and colored Karo syrup with colored beads or small trinkets.
9-10-00Make a batch of play dough and leave it white. Form several balls of the dough and place a drop or two of food coloring in the middle of the ball. Give the dough to the children to play with. They will be very surprised when the dough starts turning colors! They can also knead together two different balls to see what colors they can make.
9-1-00I have a large plastic jug (it was a pickle jar I got from a local deli). I fill it with water and let the water sit till calm, then I drip drops of food coloring into the water one at a time. My 3-year-olds can watch the color drift in the water for 10-15 minutes. We add colors as they request and occasionally add an Alka-Seltzer tablet for fun.
7-10-00When I do colors I use white cake icing and teach them to mix colors. I use a couple drops of food coloring and add it to the frosting such as one drop of red and one drop of blue have them mix it together and they learn to make purple plus they get to eat their "science project".
5-18-00Fill three plastic squeeze bottles with yellow, blue and red water. Give a white ice cube tray to the child and fill the 1st three "holes" with red, yellow and blue water. Give the child an eye dropper (or medicine dropper) to mix the colors in the empty "holes". It's amazing how many shades there are of the different colors.
5-18-00Read Little Blue Little Yellow by Leo Lionni. Follow up with great art/science activity ~ Add blue food color to small container of bubbles and yellow to another. Let the children blow bubbles. As the bubbles pop onto paper they make blue or yellow circles. Children will discover green "popping" up whenever the blue and yellow mix.
4-16-00Here is a recipe for making rainbow stew! Get a small pot and mix about 1 cup of cornstarch with some water. Heat the mixture up until very thick. Remove the "stew" from the heat and place in a sturdy Ziploc bag. Add several drops of different colored food coloring and duct tape the top to help prevent inquisitive fingers. Place on science table and allow children to manipulate the stew and observe the changes in color.
Date: 3-15-00WATERCOLORS! Use a big plastic deep storage container. line the bottom of the container with short wide plastic cups. fill most half full with clear water. then fill the others with primary colors: red, yellow, and blue water made with either liquid water color or food coloring mixed with water. give each child either a teaspoon or an eyedropper and let them become little scientists--they will discover how to make all kinds of new colors. This is a very inexpensive project that the kids love to do over and over!
2-23-00when doing a color theme, I made goop in pie plates enough for 4 children, I put yellow food coloring in it, and then with the children grated up a 1/2 a lemon, the smell was wonderful and so was the texture, it became bitty you could see the shredded peel, this was very good when learning what kind of things are yellow.
ideaAn interesting variation or extension of Marilyn's (Cabana94@aol.com) carnations in water with food coloring is to split the stem of a white carnation into three sections so that one is in plain water, one in red and one in blue. Ask the children to predict what will happen and wait to see. You will get a multicolored carnation!
Date: 1-27-00I put a light bright in my science corner. The kids LOVE seeing the little colored pegs light up when they punch through the black construction paper!
Date: 1-19-00Make 2 or 3 balloons out of white paper or poster board and laminate them. Then have 3 small containers with colored water in the 3 primary colors. Add small paintbrushes or eyedroppers and let kids put the colored water on the balloons to see what color their balloons end up! Date: 1-12-00For learning about secondary colors I mix shaving cream with liquid tempera (example: red shaving cream and yellow shaving cream). I place a dollop of each color on a paper plate or directly on the table. The children get to mix and "make" the new color!! They seem to remember better when they create the colors themselves! ideaMaterials Needed: red, yellow, blue food coloring a can of white icing paper plates (for each child) pretzel sticks Activity: 1. You give each child 3 spoonfuls of icing on their plates. 2. You put a drop of blue food coloring on one spoonful, a drop of red food coloring on one spoonful, and a drop of yellow food coloring on the last spoonful. 3. Give the children 3 pretzel sticks. 4. Allow them to experiment with mixing the colors together with their pretzel sticks. You can even let them create and name new colors. 5. They love it! Of course they get to sample the treat when they are finished. Date: 10-31-99ideaRainbow Window: Cover a window with colored cellophane. Invite your children to look out of the window and see how the color changes the view. Set up a stool nearby, if necessary, so that your children can see through the window better. Each day cut out cellophane shapes to add to the window. Point out the new color and shape and invite your children to see how the corners of cellophane overlap to make even more colors. Date: 10-31-99ideaI have found that the book Mouse Paint is a fun way to show children what happens to primary colors when they become mixed. I have the colored mice which go with the story, but I use peanut butter jars. I have all the peanut butter jars covered with construction paper. For example, the red mouse is in the jar covered with the red construction paper and so on. After we have read the story and the children think I have performed magic we then use a long piece of white paper to reenact dip one side of the stem in undiluted red food coloring and the other side of the stem in yellow food coloring, after a few days you will see that the carnation will begin to turn orange. Repeat the process using yellow and blue food coloring and red and blue food coloring. Date: 10-14-99ideaTake 3 zip-lock bags. In the first one put a dollop of red and a dollop of yellow paint. Zip up bag. In the second one, put blue and yellow paint. In the third one put blue and red. Have children squeeze each bag and watch the colors mix! No mess! Neat result! Date: 9-29-99ideaDuring "Color" week, we added a different coloring to water each day. Along with the say, green water, we had green equipment (spoons, funnels, etc) to work with and to add another sense to the equation, we added peppermint extract to the water too. We had lemon extract for yellow, cinnamon for red, etc. Made the room smell great too! 8-27-99 Date: 7-29-99We use the white Styrofoam egg cartons for color mixing. Each little cup is filled with water. the children are provided with the primary colors (food coloring) in lg. paint cups with droppers. The children add drops of each color and are totally amazed at the colors they create! We do this at least two times a month. Date: 12-26-98Color mixing bottles: Supplies: Baby oil, small plastic bottles, water, food coloring and solid candle wax coloring. 4 days before needed or as a group, chop small portions of candle wax coloring and drop into bottle of baby oil. (it takes about 4 days to melt into the baby oil) Once the mixture is melted, color your water using food coloring. Then add the colored baby oil to the bottom 1/2 of the bottle and the colored water the the top 1/2. Seal the bottles and shake. The colors will mix and then separate again and again. Date: 10-29-98Cut out large rectangular shapes (about the size of a sheet of paper) from cellophane paper (the kind that you wrap gift baskets with. Provide red, yellow, blue sheets. Make up a chart that shows the children how to make the secondary colors (yellow + blue = green, etc.) and let them explore. 10-22-98 Name: Teresa
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