Here’s an activity I did with Pinky a few weeks ago (when we had a lucky great weather weekend) to teach her about primary and secondary colors.
One day while shopping around at Target, I saw a bag with three little water guns in 3 colors: Red, Yellow and Blue….so, my mind got full of ideas for a dollar toy.
The most important one was teaching Pinky about primary colors and how she can get others colors (secondary) when they are mixed. Ok….for her was just a fun time…a playing time…a WATER time…and a messy time with colorful water….I think the best part is that she was learning and having fun :D
I filled my little water guns with water and added 3-4 drops of coloring food….red inside the red gun, blue inside the blue and yellow in the yellow.
Later, we grabbed two papers:
- Fist one: Mixed blue water with yellow….we got some green spots!
- Second one: Mixed red water with yellow…we got orange!!!
It was really fun and she was so happy mixing the water from the guns…..after she ended the activity…she just played around trying to hit some flies with the water….lol
What did we get from this simple (and cheap) activity?
- Learn about colors. What I loved the most is that she was able to relation the color of the gun with the water color inside it.
- Work those little hand muscles when using the water gun.
- Eye-hand-object coordination…when trying to hit an object with the water on the gun. (At the end she was really good controlling her hand to wet the plants, rocks and ants around.
- Gravidity: when you fire water up yourself….be careful because it comes down onto your face!!! lol
- Free art exploration.
- LOTS OF FUN around!
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I like the idea very much. We must try with food coloring :-)
Have a beautiful week
Ewa
That is a fun way to teach color exploration! Great post and thanks for linking up to the Sunday Showcase ;-)
what a fun activity! Great way to explore color mixing, play with water and exercise those fine motor skills!
Thanks for linking up & sharing on The Sunday Showcase - hope to see you again tomorrow night for the next linky party
Bernadette
http://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com
Very fun! I think we have some squirt bottles we could do this with. I love the idea of mixing the primary colours this way.
Would love it if you came over to link this up to our Outdoor Play blog hop!
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Just wanted to pop back in to say thanks for linking up! Hope we'll see you again at this week's Friday Outdoor Play linky.
What fun!
Great idea! My husband is on board with this one!
That is such a fun idea. This is my first time to your site. I do hope you are a teacher!
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