Colour Mixing!

A wonderful afternoon of awe and wonder! After predicting, testing and observing what happens when we mixed blue and purple paints, each child then thought about what would happen when we mixed blue and yellow.... Would it make purple too? Would they stay blue and yellow? Would it just look mucky??! One paint-splattered teacher later, and we had green!

The children then used colour mixing as their inspiration for the afternoon. Some headed outside to find leaves and tried to make their own paint colour to match the shade of their Autumn leaf; others got busy with layering issue paper. Some children chose to mix coloured water droplets over a salt and glue base, carefully observing the new colours that were made out of their original combinations.