RAINBOW COLOR MIXING

Rainbows are very popular right now at our house & seem to be everywhere else as well. We have done several rainbow activities. In these rainbow activities I incorporated the color wheel (see handout). To create our “Walking Rainbow” we started out by talking about the 3 primary colors. We placed red-blue-yellow each in one cup. We then placed empty cups between them. We reviewed the color order of the rainbow. Then she had to guess what colors would be made by combining the two primary colors in the empty cups. She then realized the connection between the colors of the rainbow & the color wheel.

In this activity we reviewed again the color order in a rainbow and then found the markers we needed to draw a rainbow. She then put the markers in rainbow color order before we began to use them on the paper towel. We also reviewed primary and secondary colors. I pointed out how the rainbow has an AB pattern in it- primary color- secondary color (repeated).

These are two great color mixing activities. I would do these activities on different days, since so similar. Plus doing a few days apart would be a great review. My daughter enjoyed the “Grow a Rainbow” activity the best because it had the fastest results.