M & J sat down at the table and decided which two paint colors they wanted to mix together. At first the two chose to mix the same colors: blue & red. They two started making predictions on what might happen.
"I don't know what color it will make."
"I think it will be blue!"
The two watched in amazement as the colors swirled together creating streaks of red throughout the dark blue.
"It's turning colors!"
J stared in amazement while she mixed. She wasn't quite sure on what color it turned, but she knew it was different.
"It looks different!"
"Well, it's turning kind of purple. Can I have paper?"
J & M worked together to test out their colors.
"They are both purple! But hers is different."
M paused and searched for the word he was looking for. He continued to say, "it's just different. It looks like.. um..." Finally M found the word he has looking for. "It's lighter!"
Why were the two new colors different even though they used the same colors to mix?
Fascinated by the colors turning, M & J asked to make two brand new colors.
M decided on orange and yellow.
"It's kind of turning orange, but it needs more yellow."
J decided she wanted to use yellow and blue.
"Oh my gosh, it's still blue!"
Once again the two tested out their colors to see what they made.
J asked if she could add white to the green.
"Look! It's a different green!"
M also tried adding white to his orange. He too recognized that the color was different and even exclaimed that the color was lighter.
Many of the other friends wanted to try adding white to other colors. They talked about what the words lighter and darker meant.
"When you add white, it is lighter! We can add white to all of them."
"Look, it's a dark purple!"
"It made pink! It's like my dress!"
"It's still blue, but it's just lighter now."
We were left with a few questions at the end of our day: how is the same color darker or lighter even though we used the same color paints? what makes colors darker? what happens when we mix more than 2 colors?
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