Mouse Paint
In the beginning of the year our Kindergarteners learned about the primary colors, red, yellow and blue. We began talking about the colors using the book Mouse Paint by Ellen Wash. Following our reading students were given a cup of red, yellow and blue paint, and a piece of paper divided into 6 squares. Together we began to mix the colors to make all the colors we find in the color wheel. We mixed them one at a time, then painted each square on our paper a different color. Once our paper's dried we used tear dropped shaped tracers for our mice. Students traced the shape, cut it out and placed it onto their paper, in the same order as our color wheel. Finally, we used back markers to turn our shapes into mice, just like our friends in the book Mouse Paint.
