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Colour Mixing
Teacher mixes two colour cards — children shout the colour they make together.
⏱ 5-10 min⚡ Low energy👥 Whole class
📚 Vocabulary
• red + yellow = orange
• blue + yellow = green
• red + blue = purple
• colour names
🛠 Materials
• Large colour cards in red, blue and yellow
• Result colour cards: orange, green, purple
📋 How to Play
- Hold up a red card — children say "RED!"
- Hold up a yellow card — children say "YELLOW!"
- Hold both cards together and ask "What colour do red and yellow make?"
- Children shout "ORANGE!"
- Reveal the orange card to confirm.
- Repeat with blue and yellow making green.
- Repeat with red and blue making purple.
- Let children come up and hold the cards together to mix the colours.
💡 Teacher Tips
✓Use actual paint mixing as a hands-on extension if possible.
✓This teaches both colour vocabulary and basic science at the same time.
✓Make it dramatic — "MAGIC! What happened to the colours?"
✓Follow up by letting children paint or colour mix on paper.
🔄 Variations
→Reverse quiz — show the mixed colour and ask which two colours made it.
→Children wear colour stickers and find a partner to mix colours with.
→Draw the colour mixing on the board with speech bubbles.
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