For Grown-Ups
What you’ll need
- Ice cube tray or muffin tin
- Paint brushes
- Red, yellow, and blue food coloring
- Paper towels
- A medicine dropper (optional)
Ask About Today
What colors do you need to make green? What about purple?
Explore
est. 15 min
Elmo Loves Colors
Join Elmo as he learns all about the colors in his world.
Creating Colors
Practice your color mixing with this game from PBS Kids.
Create
est. 30 min
Mix Your Own Colors
Squeaks and Jessi are painting, but they need more colors. How will they make them? After you’ve watched the video, you’ll try this yourself!
Experiment With Color
Follow Squeaks and make your own rainbow of colors.
Toolkit Materials:
Other Materials:
Ice cube tray or muffin tin; paint brushes; red, yellow, and blue food coloring; paper towels; a medicine dropper (optional)
Grown-Ups
Fill an ice cube tray with water and add a few drops of red, blue, and yellow food coloring to three separate cubes. Give your child paint brushes to mix new colors in the other cubes. Extend this activity by adding a medicine dropper and paper towels.
Kids
Use your paint brushes to make new colors. Next, use a medicine dropper or paint brush to put drops of different colors on a paper towel. Watch them mix together!
Read
est. 10 min
Press Here
This story by Hervé Tullet stars red, yellow, and blue. Get ready to PRESS here!
Mix It Up
In Hervé Tullet’s second story, the colors get all mixed up.
Move
est. 5 min
Do the Color Dance
Rock your body to the colors!