Paint Mixing Activity

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Paint Mixing Activity

This is a small intro course for the first day of class

Objectives:

• To teach students about color mixing
• To allow students to explore paint on textured paper

Materials

• Small pieces of paper, size of index cards
• Different color combinations of tempera (?) paint on papers
• Red+yellow, blue+red, Yellow+blue etc.
• Paint brushes
• Water

This is a basic activity meant to allow new students to explore paint mixing.  Give students the cards with the paint dots on them and ask them to spread the color around and experiment.  Each student should try to mix the colors together and spread the colors out individually to cover the paper and to see how the paints mix.  Set cards aside to dry and return them to the students with the color combinations written on the back.  These will be used as reference cards for the kids in the future of the class.