Kindergarten Activity No. 67 : Mixing Colours

Colour Mixing

Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are the ability to understand cause and effect, figure out how things work, and solve problems. These skills are essential for academic success and for everyday life. They help us make good decisions, understand the consequences of our actions, and solve problems.

One way to enhance these skills is by having children experiment with colour mixing.

What do children learn from colour mixing activities?

While observing the colours being blended together, making predications, comparing, and exploring cause and effect, the children will be enhancing their critical thinking skills.

Examples of questions you can ask to make children think are:

‘what will happen if we mix red, blue and yellow together?’
‘Can we make the exact same colour twice?’
‘How much yellow do we need to add to the blue to make green, a little or a lot?’

2. While experimenting to try to achieve a particular colour, children are using their problem-solving skills. Children use problem solving skills to come up with ideas for what they can do when the colour they are mixing does not turn out the way they hoped it to.

3. Familiarise themselves with mathematical concepts such as more and less.

4. Enhance their fine motor skills through, pouring and mixing, and work on controlling those skills. It’s not always easy to pour just a little bit of paint!

5. Hands on learning and experience with primary and secondary colours.

They will also learn that:

Mixing colours generates new colours

The Primary colours

The primary colours red, yellow, and blue are used to create all the other colours. (These three colours are unable to be created through mixing of any other colours).

By mixing the primary colours together, they create other colours such as orange, green and purple, also known as the secondary colours.

Red +yellow= orange Blue +red= purple Blue+ yellow= green

You can experiment further by mixing various colours such as, black and orange to make brown, red, and white to make pink and black and white to make grey.

Let the children experiment, explore, mix, and learn.

Once they are done mixing…let them PAINT!