Mixing Colors

Instructions:

1. Gather your materials: powdered food coloring (yellow, red, blue), dropper, water, 3 transparent glasses and an ice tray.

2. Make colored water for each of the three primary colors: red, blue and yellow!

3. Start by mixing blue and yellow by squirting the colors into a cube of the tray. What do you get?

4. Yellow and Red?

5. Red and Blue?

6. What other colors can you make?

InterACTions:

• Are you ready to be an artist today?

• What do you know about mixing colors?

• Let’s go! Show me how you can mix the three primary colors (yellow, red and blue) in the clear glasses.

• Let’s start with blue and yellow? What happens? Yellow and red? Red and blue?

• Tell me about what you are observing!

• I’m wondering what happens if you mix the new colors you made. Can you make even more colors?

• What are you thinking?

• What ideas do you have for using this water? What can you create?