Black and White with Colours

When we mixed potions last week, some of the children were frustrated trying to make pink. As much clear water as they added to the red, it just still looked red.

So this week Maple group did another colour experiment. We made predictions about what would happen if we added white to colours. The children were excited to display their findings.

When we looked the at results together the children saw: "I put white and red and it turned pink." "I mixed white with black and it made gray." and "White and purple make light purple."

Some of our predictions raised more questions for us. If adding white didn't turn the colours darker, then what would?

Thinkers that they are, the children concluded that paint mixing test number two was the best way to find out. The teacher picked the experiment and their predictions show that they were still unsure what was going to happen.

While mixing their paints the children exclaimed: "It turned dark blue!" "It turned a darker brown." "Whoa! It turned all black!" "This is dark orange." and "It made it kind of purple."

This learning about colour shades will follow us deeper into the colour unit.