Activity: Color Wheel Experiment
Create a color wheel with your child and have fun learning about mixing new colors.
Questions to ask. By asking your child these questions and discussing what they see you will introduce vocabulary and concepts of color, math, and science in a fun playful way.
What happens when you look through the blue lens?
What happens when you look just through the yellow lens? Now look through both the yellow and blue lenses, what color do you see? Green.
How many lenses are you looking through? Two.
Now look through both the red and yellow lenses, what color do you see? Orange.
How many lenses are you looking through? Two.
Now look through both red and blue lenses, what color do you see? Purple.
How many lenses are you looking through? Two.
Did you know that red, yellow and blue are primary color?. This means by mixing two of theses colors together they make up other colors. Green, orange, and purple are secondary colors and they are made by putting two primary colors together.
What happens if you look through the red, yellow, and blue lenses together? What color do they make?
What if you put the red lens up to one eye, and the blue lens up to the other eye at the same time?
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