Mixing Colours

Finn wanted to paint with sponges and small rollers today (you can buy in packets from most places that sell art & craft supplies). 

I started off by only giving him blue paint, then after a few minutes I washed his brush and roller, and gave him a container of yellow paint.  As he was applying the yellow paint, we talked about how when the yellow paint meets up with the blue paint- it creates green. 

Watery ink paints (watercolours or water mixed with food colouring) are the best for demonstrating this. There are many poems about colour mixing you can share with children. 

Here is one example:  

Paints 

by Ilo Orleans

When I put YELLOW

Paint on RED,

The colors change

To ORANGE instead.

And, mixing BLUE

And RED, I get

A pretty shade

of VIOLET.

Another trick

That I have seen:

YELLOW and BLUE

Turn into GREEN.

There's magic when

My colors mix. 

It's fun to watch them

doing tricks.