Trucker Kids - Learning Colors

 I love activities that I can level easily for both my children ("Princess" is 4 years old and "Buddy" is almost 2).  We read the book Mouse Paint last night.

 It's a simple book about mixing colors.  You can purchase this book here.  With Buddy we are mainly working on building his vocabulary and learning his colors.  Princess knows her colors and about mixing colors so we focused on what primary and secondary colors are this time.

Following the book we made 3 sandwich bags of whipped cream (we used whipped cream so they could eat it after).  We added red food coloring to one bag, yellow to another, and blue to the next.

Then the kids mixed their bags.

Resulting in:

 Buddy was especially interested in adding the drops of food coloring himself.  Princess and I talked about how these colors cannot be made from another color, making them the primary colors.
Next in the story the mice then step in different colored puddles and mix the colors.  We added the puddle color to each bag.  So yellow was added to the red bag, blue to the yellow bag, and red to the blue bag.  Each time we reinforced the color name for Buddy.  Then they mixed again.

We then reinforced the resulting color names with Buddy and talked to Princess about how these colors were made using primary colors and are called secondary colors.

At the end they dumped all the whipped cream into a bowl, made brown, and had a yummy treat.