
4-5 small jars – You will use these by having your students add the ice cubes to the jars to begin experimenting with color mixing.Black and white paint – use this paint so your preschoolers can experiment with making colors different shades and tints.Food coloring – tint the water in the ice cube trays.Ice cube trays – use these to make colored ice cubes in the primary colors, plus black and white.
Water – you will use this to make the different colors to place in the ice cube trays. Using colored ice, water, and baby food jars, you can do just that! Color Mixing Supplies Children learn to add white and black to colors to create lighter tints or darker shades.Īfter reading Mix It Up, your kids will absolutely want to do some color mixing themselves. He then goes one step further, introducing white and black. As the pages turn, or as he directs you to mash pages together, children can pretend to mix primary colors, yellow and blue, to make secondary colors, green. In Mix It Up, Herve Tullet uses his interactive picture books to teach preschoolers about the magic of primary colors and color mixing. Mixing Colors Preschool Activity with Mix It Up And this fun mixing colors preschool activity is a great way for your preschoolers to explore color mixing.
Mix It Up is no different, exploring the magic of color mixing. His stories demand active reader participation on every page, while teaching and exploring fun concepts. No books captivate my preschooler more than Herve Tullet’s interactive picture books.