Last week, friends began learning about colors and color mixing as we kicked off our long-term color study! We started by reading Monsters Love Colors, a very silly book that introduces colors and color mixing to young children really well.
Daniel: Red monster! Blue monster! Yummy colors!
Elizabeth: I can’t wait to mix so many colors for the monsters.
Felipe: Will red, yellow and blue make a rainbow? The monsters will be so happy! We made new colors, too.
Next, I introduced some new materials, such as a palette. Children learned that palettes are a tool that artists use for mixing colors. They were very excited to hold it in one hand and their paintbrush in the other. For the first week, each palette was prepared with the primary colors (red, yellow, blue) for children to mix new colors with.
Leonel: We’re going to paint with Colombia colors… red, yellow and blue.
Sebrina: A palette holds the paint. It’s important.
Finally, it was time to paint. Children began mixing colors that they thought the monsters from the story would love!
Autumn: Look at how I made it… I mixed red and blue and it’s purple!
Phoenix: That color looks like the color of Ethiopian food. My mom likes that food!
Luca: Red is the color for love.
Dafnee: Daniel was right! Red and blue makes purple!
Brandon: I’ll mix red and blue and let’s see what happens!
Isabella: How did you make that kind of purple, Elliott? Does it have more blue or more red?
Cameron: I mixed all the colors… let’s see what happens! How come when I did all the colors it made brown, not rainbow?
Nydelyn: I made red, like a strawberry red, because I like them.
Trebor: I want to make rainbow. Wow, I did it actually! It’s because I’m an artist.
Cora: I can’t believe red, yellow and blue can make all of these colors!
Frances: I made turquoise with a lot of blue and a little yellow. Now look, when I put a lot of yellow and a little blue it makes light green, like slimy green.
Bella: I made the color of ducks!
Elizabeth: When you mix colors, the paint is loud. When you paint, the brush is quiet because it’s busy.
Waju: I made dark green! Now I have two types of green. This one is darker because it has more blue in it.
Eli: I made green because I thinked about it and remembered that blue and yellow would do that.
Kwame: I mixed all the colors and it made brown.
Siah: I made tropical blue, how did I do that?
Katherine: Blue and yellow I told you made green.
Anders: I was right… red and yellow did make orange.
Joelle: A little bit of yellow and a little bit of blue makes a little bit of green.
Sammy: I need to take a little break… mixing colors is making me tired!
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