Making Colors

Bishop came to school telling his class about what happened at home last night......

He was painting at home.  He had blue, red, and white paint.  All of a sudden, the red and white started running into each other and at first he got worried about it, but the next thing he knew something crazy happened!  When the colors mixed he yelled out!  "Look!  It's pink!"

He told his friends about the colors he used to make pink.  The children grabbed those colors, and yellow, because we can never get enough of yellow ;0) ...........and Bishop started showing everyone how he mixed the paints!

"Oh!  Look we made green!"

How fun it was to mix so many colors and watch them blend!

When we were done mixing, we used our new colors to make fish and faces!!!!!!

Color is one of the first things children use to make distinctions between things they see, and color words are some of the first words they use to describe what they see.  The children are growing up in a world filled with many shades and hues. By focusing on the colors around them as we engage in everyday activities — painting, playing with clay, drawing with crayons — we can help the children learn how to use color as a means for learning in the areas of language, math, science, and art. All the basic skills of vocabulary, description, sorting, matching, observing, and experimenting are inherent to color learning.