{"id":2182,"date":"2012-07-07T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2012-07-07T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T15:29:23","slug":"mixing-100-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/mixing-100-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing 100 Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unless you give them two colors at a time, young kids tend to use colors as they come, rather than mixing them. Too much direct translating from markers and crayons?<\/p>\n

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Asking for 100 colors is really a stretch for kindergardeners, I think just thinking about the possibility of 100 different colors is expanding for some of them, so this was a really great activity. We got the idea from TeachKidsArt: Mixing 100 Colors<\/a>. It also goes with all the 100 activities that kinders and pre-schoolers are doing in the spring, the 100th day of school, practicing counting to 100, push it into art too.<\/p>\n

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I really had a lot of fun with this too! As it doesn’t take ‘skill’, just patience, it is something that parents and children can work on in parallel, on a relatively equal and companionable footing. (‘Just’ patience. Ha. Well, that is one of the major skills that this activity will stretch.)<\/p>\n

I did find though, that the washable tempera paints are MUCH less suited to color mixing than student (non-washable) tempera paints, we tried both. The student tempera has about 10x as much pigment, so your mixed colors come out much more saturated. It is quite a challenge to mix a real orange using red and yellow OR magenta and yellow with washable tempera, whereas the same exercise with student tempera gives you a nice orange.<\/p>\n

Here is a quick little PDF<\/a> with light dashed lines outlining 100 boxes to fill with colors. Teaching Kids Art<\/a> used very light filled gray squares with white separators, but I thought our kindergardeners and preschoolers needed a little more contrast, especially since we do our art outside in the sun rather than in a classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless you give them two colors at a time, young kids tend to use colors as they come, rather than mixing them. Too much direct translating from markers and crayons? Asking for 100 colors is really a stretch for kindergardeners, I think just thinking about the possibility of 100 different colors is expanding for some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[162,21,163],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-playgroup","tag-color","tag-paint","tag-patience","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_7502.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmXcv-zc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}