Friday, February 15, 2013

Colour Mixing

Z is 3 years 6 months old



We read 2 books recently that dealt with mixing of primary colours to give secondary colours and so forth- The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown and Curious George's First Day of School. 




                          













Z was so intrigued by the concept that we decided to do our own colour mixing experiment. Here's our set-up



Z thoroughly enjoyed it and was amused by the way 2 colours would mix to give another colour. This also made a great fine motor activity with all that dropper squeezing.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Work Trays




transferring acrylic jewels


wet pouring


matching button magnets by colour


pulverizing egg shells


sawing styrofoam sheet



counting with glass beads


transferring water with a syringe