We Are Artists
Mixing
Colours Experiment
In October, we read a
story called
Little Blue and Little
Yellow by Leo Lionni.
During
the story, we asked the children to predict what would happen when Little Blue
and Little Yellow hugged.
These
are some of the predictions:
“They
will be happy.” ~ Edoardo
“They
will turn green.” ~ Christian
“They
will mush together.” ~ Tony
When
you mix blue and yellow together, you make green!
We
decided to try and create other colours by mixing paint together. We also used
the overhead projector and coloured paddles to help us decide which colour to
try next.
We
found that:
blue and red make purple
white
and red make pink
yellow
and red make orange
On
Monday March 17th, we read a story called Sky Colour by Peter H. Reynolds.
We asked the children:
What colour is the sky?
This is what they said.
While reading this story,
it reminded us of the colour mixing and the book we read in October. We
revisited our documentation to remind us how to mix colours.
We then asked the
children: What colours mixed together make blue?
The children came up with
some predictions and we tested our theories over the next two days. We
discovered that white makes a colour lighter and black makes a colour darker. We
used the paint we made to make some interesting paintings.
Natalia – My Daddy’s work
truck.
Noah – I was mixing the
colours.
Veronica – I made the sun. I made a rainbow. It’s raining.
Deana – I made a truck. It
can drive when my Dad sits. It can drive when you put your seatbelt on.
On Wednesday, we decided
to look on the internet to see if we could find the answer to our question.
This is what we learned.
It’s easy to mix paints to
make new colours. You can use the primary colours (red, blue and yellow) plus
black and white to get all the colours of the rainbow.
Red, yellow and blue are
primary colours. Primary colours are the most basic colours. You can’t make
them by mixing other colours.
Hhhhmmmmmm!!!
So, we can’t make the
colour blue!
You can’t make red, blue
or yellow, but you could use those colours to make other colours.
Red, blue and yellow paint
were put out at the art studio and the children created some paintings.
Alicia – It’s oysters that
live in the water and eat soap. I used yellow, blue and red to make it. To make
purple, I used red and blue. For green, blue and yellow. Red and yellow to get
orange. Red and yellow made brown.
Natalia – I made a little girl. I used red, blue and yellow. When I mixed the red and blue and it made purple. I used blue and yellow and red to make a different colour.
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