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I picked up this really cute book at the library called Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh. It's a fun little story about 3 mice that play in some paint pots and learn about mixing colors :)


It was perfect timing because I had also ran across a great way to learn about color theory over at Make & Takes using ziploc bags for mixing colors inside. A fabulous no mess idea!! So we gathered up our 3 primary colors: red, yellow and blue, a couple of ziploc bags and of course the camera :)


It turned out great. L smooshed the ziploc bags around to blend the two dots of paint and we ended up with a beautiful display of what each of the primary colors mixed together created.


Blue and red makes purple



and yellow and red of course creates orange :)


Now that we have learned what secondary colors can be made from the primary colors I think we'll move on to what tertiary colors can be created from them :) Fun!!

Blessings,

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Posted by Jacqueline

That sounds like fun!

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Posted by socalval

YOU are a blessing! We are studying primary colors and mixing colors and I just can't seem to bring out the paints with my two year old not wanting to "dig in". Now, I can do it with baggies. Thank you SO MUCH!!! Great idea.

Valerie

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Posted by foxvalleyfamily

We just read that book this week, too!
What a fun project...and I love that there's little to no mess! ;-)

Michelle

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Posted by CrossView

That so makes me miss having little ones! =D

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Posted by sadie423

We loved that book back when my older 2 were a bit younger. I should get it out for my younger ones again. We've always just mixed with colored water....I really should go the paint/shaving cream bags. I bet they'd like the sesory aspect of it.

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Posted by Tonia

I love this idea - I will definitely try it with my daughter! Thanks for sharing it!

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Posted by mom2two

...to mix colors! We might just have to try that at our house! Thanks for sharing!

Yvonne :o)

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Posted by ApplesofGold

Oh, WOW-what a fun and neat activity! Thank you for sharing. Holly

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Posted by FruitfulFamily

GREAT IDEA!

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Posted by molytail

I don't think I've ever seen paint used in a way that didn't get messy - neat idea! :-)

http://molytail.blogspot.com/

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