Mixing Colors

Here is a fun and simple science activity that will keep your child engaged for hours! Well. maybe not hours but for a long time. Using water, food coloring, and some droppers, you have an easy science experiment.

I have red, blue, and yellow colored water with each of the droppers. They can use the smaller bowls for mixing the different combinations of colors. The larger bowl is where they can dump out the smaller bowls and start over again. I also put a small spoon for mixing and a sponge for clean up.

I was sure that finding out all the different color combinations he could make (orange, purple, and green) would be a hit. However, my son's favorite color to make was brown and grey, using all the colors mixed in one bowl! Oh well, there was still meaningful learning happening within all this fun. We counted the drops we used of each color. What would happen if we put only one drop of red and five drops of blue? How many drops did we put all together? There was also a lot of fine motor development refined by using the droppers. Such a fun activity!

We will definitely do this again...maybe tomorrow...