Kindergarten: Primary Color Mixing

Over the past few weeks in art class, Kindergartners have been learning all about the primary colors and what makes them so special.

First we did a demonstration, where colored water (red, yellow, and blue) were poured into cups to see what colors they would turn into.  This demonstration was met with a lot of oohs and ahhs.

Then students practiced color mixing on their own.  They were given red, yellow, and blue binger daubers and they had to make gum balls of all different colors.  By overlapping the colors, they could get secondary colors. 

This week, we needed to start painting our orange and green backgrounds so we can make our pumpkins in the grass project next week but Mrs. Saca ran out of orange and green paint (wink, wink).  So the students had to figure out what colors to mix to make their own orange and green paint.  We got a little bit messy mixing up all of these colors, but we got our papers painted!  We are ready to start making some pumpkins next week!

Things your child learned:

-what colors are primary colors (red, yellow, blue)

-why primary colors are special:
1. you can't make primary colors 
2. from primary colors you can make other colors

-what colors mix to make orange, green, and purple

This might be a fun quiz to give them at the dinner table one night to see how much they can remember!