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Colors Galore

M remembered trying to mix different colors from yesterday's painting experiment. Both M & K were working together to mix the three colors presented without dumping them into one cup. They both used the fat brushes to make broad strokes and large splotches. 

"How can we mix the colors with these?"

"I know, we do this."


"It's easy to paint with these!"


W was determined to cover the whole shirt in the blue sparkly water color. 

"It's blue! Look!"



Yesterday, K asked if we could pour the water colors out of the cup onto the shirt. After discussing it briefly, K decided that it wasn't such a good idea to dump the water out because it would be all gone. Today, we all figured out exactly what happens when the cup falls over. 

"When we dropped it, it got all over the place!"

"The shirt is all wet!"

"There is so much color!"

"They are all mixed up. Let's keep mixing them!"



M intently used two brushes to try and mix the blue and green together separately. M tried this same experiment yesterday with eye droppers. When asked, "what's different?" M simply replied, "They both mix, but this is different because it's brushes." That left us both wondering: how else can we mix the colors?


L decided he,too, needed to use two paint brushes. He used them like race cars across the shirt by making large strokes. L continued to run the brushes across making engine sounds and then crashing. L noticed that the brushes weren't making any colors. 

"I can't see it. Where's the blue?"



We were left wondering a few different things: Why couldn't we see the color when the shirt was already painted? How else could we mix the colors?




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