Materials
Transparent colored florist or craft wrap (red, yellow, blue)
Tape
A sunny window
3 to 6 pieces of shirt cardboard
What to do
- Tape a 1' (30 cm) square section of a colored transparent wrap to a sunny window.
- Use the shirty cardboard to make color paddles by first folding the cardoard in half, then cutting out a "window." Then unfold. tape transparent wrap over this cutout holel Refold andtape the cardboard shut. Make at least one color paddle for each color.
- When the sun hits your window it should cast a patch of colored sunlight through the transparent wrap into the classroom.
- Encourage the children to hold the color paddles up to the window to mix and change the colors.
Original Poem
A little red and then some blue,
What do you think they're going to do?
Mix some yellow and some blue,
Color mixing is fun to do! Related books
Color Dance by Ann Jonas The Color Kittens by Golden Books Staff Do You Know Colors? by Katherine Howard Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni Mouse Paint byEllen Stoll Walsh Linda Ford, Sacramento, CA | 
