What do we suggest?

EXPERIMENTING WITH COLORS

What do you need?

The Color Monster changes colors according to the emotion that it’s feeling. But where do the colors come from? Can we create them? Are there any colors that are not in the rainbow?We suggest you to turn into a scientist for a day and experiment by mixing and creating colors to paint some unique soap bubble art at the end. Are you up for it?

• 1 “The Color Monster” game to play a match.

• 3 food colors (yellow, red and blue).

• 7 small containers (you can use jar lids, empty yogurt cups or even plastic cups).

• A little bit of dish soap.

• Straws.

• White paper for painting.

• Answer the questions from the How has it been? section.

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Attention

the cards for children ages 4 and up were designed to be used with an adult, who would be in charge of Reading and explaining them to the child, as well as walking them

through their findings.

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Arts andExperiments

EXPERIMENTING WITH COLORS

Let´s go!

1. Open the Color Monster game and play a match

2. Take the red, blue and yellow color tokens. Those are the 3 primary colors in nature and cannot be mixed from other colors. Put a little bit of water in 3 of the plastic cups and add 5 -10 drops of food coloring to each cup to color it. Put each of the color tokens next to the cup with its color. Is it the same color?

3. Now we’re going to mix all the other colors from the rainbow. To do that, we’re going to mix carefully a Little bit of each one of the previous solutions in a new cup, creating 3 new colors: orange, green and purple.

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4. How’s that? It looks like magic, right? Now that you’re experts, it’s time for us to create brown into a new cup by mixing a little bit of green and red in a new cup:

5. Now that we already have a nice set of 7 colors, we’re going to create a wonderful painting with them. Put a little dish soap in each of the cups. Stir carefully with the straw, but trying not to make a lot of bubbles. If you have some glycerin handy, you can add a Little bit to each cup, but it isn’t necessary, don’t worry about it.

6. Dip the straw in one of the colored solutions, take it out and put it over the paper. Blow slowly using the side that was NOT in the colored water to create a bubble on the and let it pop over it. WARNING, we need to be clear telling the child that they need to blow out, no breathe in.

7. Now complete your unique painting with bubbles and drops of all the colors you wish. You can use the same straw or change it depending the color you want to use. If you use many colors at the same time, it’ll look like our emotions, because they are of all the colors you can imagine.

Let´s go!

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How has it been?

Once we finished the experiments, we’ll ask the children the next questions:

1. Do you remember which are the primary colors? They are the ones that we used at the beginning of the experiment and represent Anger, Sadness and Happiness.

2. Think about all we experienced and tell me how would you create these colors:

• Orange:

• Purple:

• Green:

• Brown:

3. There are some colors we couldn’t create. Can you tell me 3 of them?

• Color 1:

• Color 2:

• Color 3:

4. Look at the bubble painting that you made. If each color was an emotion, how would you say that your painting is feeling?

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What have we developed?

In this activity we used mainly the experimental and artistic skills to discover the differences between the primary, secondary and tertiary colors and how to combine them.We have also discovered that there are different ways to make a painting, for example, using colored soap bubbles, where a drinking straw can become an original brush.

Songs about colors

Here are two links to songs about colors that you can watch in YouTube at the Little Baby Bum channel:

Color train songs(in spanish)

Colors and actions

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