Primary Color Equations

We're putting our memories to the test this week with primary and secondary color equations (and yes, that is purple at the top, iphones don't always take the best photos). We spent all of last week working on learning the primary colors and discovering what colors we can create when two primary colors are mixed together. Now it's time for one last project to wrap it all up.

Read on for step by step instructions...

Primary Color Equations

materials:
red, yellow, blue, purple, orange and green construction paper
scissors or one of those nifty shape stampers from Michael's
two cups
glue stick
pencil
white paper
2 bowls

get to work:
1. Begin by cutting out the shapes. Place the primary colors in one bowl and the secondary colors in another.

2. Place the white paper in front of your child and show them the contents of the two cups, explaining that one cup has the primary colors while the other holds the secondary colors.

3. Take a red and blue shape out of the primary color cup. Place it on the paper and fill in the plus and equal signs. Then take out an orange piece of paper, place it down after the equal sign and look at your child, shake your head "no." Try this again with a green shape. Finally pull out a purple and shake your head "yes." Repeat with yellow and red, yellow and blue color combos.
*Older children may already know their color combos well enough to skip this step.

4. Help your child glue the pieces onto their paper.

5. Once they're finished they can use any extra pieces to make a collage on another sheet of paper.

PS
I do teach at a Montessori school, so at times my art projects may have a "Montessori" feel to them. This is just one manner of teaching, different methods work for different children. I love the Montessori method, so I try to integrate the it without having it dominate the blog. Please feel free to adapt each project as you like.