A few color-blending ideas used in my preschool classes, as well as at home just for fun:
Rainbow Stew
Easy to mix up the night before, and a fun sensory experience for the kids to find at their spots at the table in the morning.
Rainbow Stew Recipe
In a small pot mix about 1 cup of cornstarch with some water. Heat the mixture up until very thick. Remove the "stew" from the heat, let cool and place in a sturdy Ziploc food storage bag. Add several drops of different colored food coloring in miscellaneous places around the "stew" and secure the top of the bag with duct or clear shipping tape, to help prevent inquisitive fingers. If you think you're child might be extra rough with the stew (pounding it with something other than a gentle hand), you might consider double-bagging it.
Color-Surprise Playdough
Make a batch of play dough and leave it white. Form several balls of the dough and place a drop or two of food coloring in the middle of the ball. Give the dough to the children to play with. They will be very surprised when the dough starts turning colors! They can also knead together two different balls to see what colors they can make.
Watercolors
Use a big, shallow clear plastic storage container as the "base" (those sweater boxes for underbed storage are perfect).
Line the bottom of the container with a bunch of clear plastic cups (white would be next-best choice).
Fill most of the cups half full with clear water.
Then fill the others with primary colors: red, yellow, and blue water made with either liquid water color or food coloring mixed with water.
Give each child either a teaspoon or a cleaned, leftover medicine eyedropper (or even a small turkey baster) and let them become little scientists--they will discover how to make all kinds of new colors.
This is a very inexpensive project that kids love to do over and over. A perfect thing for kids of all ages to do within ear or eye-shot on the porch while you're fixing dinner.
...More to come!
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