Teach your kids about color mixing with fun project

My daughter Ally, 4, loves art projects. And lately she’s become interested in what happens when two colors are mixed together.

We’ve tried to teach her color mixing with food coloring and paints. But then Ally’s preschool teachers shared a fun way to teach young children about mixing colors.

They suggested filling a Ziploc bag with cheap white shaving cream. Then squirt into the bag a drop of two different colors of paint, such as a drop of blue and a drop of yellow paint. Then seal the bag and let the kids squish the shaving cream and paint mixture around until the two drops of paint create a new color.

Ally loved this project and afterward was easily able to remember which colors combined to make green, orange and purple. And she liked blending colors to make more odd combinations – like what happens when you mix pink and brown?

The teachers said they also hide small items, like plastic trinkets, in the foam for the kids to find as they squish it around.

This makes a great rainy day art project.