::: waxed paper colour mixing
Many children at this early stage of the year still love to paint their hands and swirl them all over the easel paper. Such a wonderful sensory experience!
An added bonus of this is that they create wonderful mixes of colour and enjoy telling us what they have made.
As some children don’t enjoy getting paint all over their hands we thought that they could have a colour mixing experience which wasn’t so messy.
We mixed together primary coloured paints with glue and put them into bowls with little spoons.
The children popped little dobs of the gluey paint onto waxed paper, placed another sheet on top …
then spread the colours around with their hands.
The result was varied and interesting.
When they had dried out, the children cut around their shapes …
and we put them on the window …
so the light would shine through like stained glass.
One child said that they looked like stegosaurus spines.
Tags: colour mixing, paint, waxed paper
