Materials
Graham crackers White frosting
Food coloring Toothpicks
Instructions
1. Talk to the children about mixing colors. Ask them if they know which colors combine to make green, purple and orange. If they don't know, tell them that they are going to find out by experimenting with color mixing.
2. Demonstrate how to color the white frosting by adding food coloring to it. Mix batches of red, blue and yellow frosting.
3. Give each child a graham cracker and a toothpick.
4. Let each child choose two of the frosting colors to put on his graham cracker (use about 1 teaspoon or 5 ml of each color per graham cracker).
5. Let the children mix their colors with their toothpicks to see what secondary colors appear.
6. After the children tell you what color they made, let them eat their treat.
7. Steps 1-6 may be repeated with different color combinations.
8. For a follow-up, write a whole-class chart or story about which colors mixed together to make new colors.More to doArt: Ask the children which colors look warm, which colors seem cool? Encourage the children to color with just warm colors or just cool colors. Display the pictures and ask the children to dictate stories about them.Math: Make a graph of the children's favorite colors.
