This primary colour mixing project works on blending tissue paper to discover secondary colours.
The following post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. Thank you!This activity was inspired by the “Create a Color Collage” in Jamie Reimers’s book LEARN – which is a fantastic book featuring all kinds of fun learning activities for preschoolers – check it out!We started the activity by cutting up red, yellow and blue tissue paper into random shapes with child-safe scissors.
I wrote the names of two primary colours on the top of some white card in the three possible combinations. My son used a glue stick to attach the tissue paper pieces to the card.
Where the two different primary colours overlapped, the secondary colour started to show!
But F wasn’t happy to stop there – he wanted to add water! So I grabbed a spray bottle and he spritzed each collage with water for extra colour mixing!
We both loved the results!
I was actually concerned that this was too basic for him – he knows perfectly well which primary colours make secondary. But despite this he was still fascinated by seeing the secondary colour start to show when he sprayed the water!
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