What you’ll need:

  3 cans of white icing

  1 bottle each of red, yellow, blue food coloring

  Box of vanilla wafers

  Plenty of spoons and bowls

  A large tray, plate or platter to display your color wheel

  Wet paper towel (this can get sticky!)

 Directions:

 1. Open 1 can of icing and spoon equal amounts into three bowls. 

2. Open the 2nd can and spoon 1/3 of the can into a fourth bowl.

3. Make 1 bowl of red, 1 bowl of blue and 2 bowls of yellow icing by adding drops of food coloring to each bowl and stirring well.  Use generous amounts of food coloring to make the red very red, the yellow very yellow and the blue very blue!

4. Put a small amount of each primary color on 1 wafer.  Place it on the plate for the beginning of your color wheel.

5. Decide who is going to mix the primary combinations of  yellow and blue,  yellow and red, red and blue.

6. Give each person a clean bowl to make their first mix.  With a clean spoon, mix a little of each of your 2 primary colors to make the new secondary color.

7. Put a small amount of each secondary color on 1 wafer.  Place it on the plate between the 2 primary colors used to make this color.

Here is where it can get confusing!  Using clean spoons and a clean bowl, take a spoonful of 1 primary color and mix it with a spoonful of the secondary color you just made.  You will do this 2 times, one for each of the primary colors you used in step 5. 

9. You now have your tertiary colors.  Put a small amount of each color on a wafer and place the wafer  between the appropriate primary and secondary color!

10. What happens when you mix all 3 primary colors together?  What happens when you mix a little of all of the colors together?

 A Kool….Aid™ Version