Preschool Experiments - Combining Colors with your Preschooler

There's a whole rainbow of colors for your preschooler to learn and many ways to teach the colors to your preschooler. One great way is through a preschool experiment that allows you to combine colors to make new colors with your preschooler.

What your Preschooler will Learn:

1. Combining colors creates new colors
2. How to create secondary colors such as purple, green and orange
3. That they cannot create the three primary colors-red, blue and yellow

What you will Need to Combine Colors with your Preschooler:

1. Ice cube trays
2. Food coloring
3. Water
4. A few zip-lock baggies or clear glasses
5. A label
6. A pen

What To Do:

Step one: Add water to an ice cube tray

Step two: Have you or your preschooler add a few drops of different color food-colorings to the water in each ice cube square. Note: Food coloring does stain, so use caution

Step three: Freeze the ice cube tray

Step four: When the cubes are frozen, combine different colors of ice cubes into zip lock baggies or glasses to create new colors

Step five: Write on each label what colors went into it

Step six: As the ice cubes melt, they'll combine into different colors. If your preschooler is very impatient, you can stir the ice cubes or shake the bags to get the ice to melt faster

Step seven: If your preschooler is old enough, have them guess what colors will be created. Write their guesses on the label

Suggestions for Combining Colors with your Preschooler:

Start with the three primary colors; red, blue and yellow. Once you've created oranges and purples and greens, start mixing your food colorings to create new colors of ice cubes. Then have your preschooler combine those ice cubes to create more complex (tertiary) colors such as aquamarine and magenta.

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