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Color Mixing With Mouse Paint
Color Mixing With Mouse Paint
A classic story, simple game, and color mixing will help your students learn their primary and secondary colors.
Learning Objectives
Attachments
Introduction (5 minutes)
Read the story while paying particular attention to the color mixing.
After reading the book, tell the students that they will go back to the book to make some notes.
Go back through the book and list the colors the mice made on a piece of chart paper.
Use color markers as you chart the color combinations.
Hang the color chart where every student can see it.
Point to the primary colors and explain that these colors are called primary colors because they are
used to make other colors.
Point to the secondary colors and explain that these colors are called secondary colors because they
are made from mixing the primary colors.
Collect the crayons and have your students remain in the circle.
Hand out the Color Wheel worksheet.
Tell your students that they will be using tempera colors with cotton swabs to complete this activity.
Model how to use the primary colors to create secondary colors.
Model how to put the correct colors on the right numbers in the worksheet.
Place an example where your students can refer to it.
Place the Colors visual guide where students can see it.
Use small paper plates with a drop of red, blue and yellow paint for each student.
Give each student several cotton swabs to mix and paint with.
Dismiss your students to work in their table spots.
Observe and guide your students as they work.
VIDEO: Primary Colors Song for Kids/Secondary Colors Song for Kids by Kids Learning Tube
VIDEO: Mouse Paint by Sara Danno
BOOK: White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker
Differentiation
Enrichment: Advanced students may continue mixing paint as they complete the black and white
version of the Colors visual guide.
Support: Some students may need a visual guide at their table spot. Some students may need help
identifying which number should go with what color on the worksheet.
Assessment (5 minutes)
During Guided Practice: Your students should be able to hold up the correct colors when responding to
your color prompts.
During Independent Working Time: Your students should be able to mix the primary paint colors to create
secondary colors. Your students should also follow directions and place the colors in the correct spots.
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Finally, we'll do an
2 experiment! What happens
when you mix all three of
the primary colors?
3 7: Mystery color!
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