Color Mixing and Literacy

At the art table, children have been experimenting with color mixing and different mediums. They have tried mixing different colored paints and water colors. Most recently, the children tested out watercolor pencils. Noticing the book, "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stoll Walsh sitting on the art table, children asked the teachers to read them the story as they tried out some mixing of colors. As the mice in the story climbed in and out of paint jars and danced in various puddles of paints the children experimented with the colors. When the mouse that was covered in red paint danced in a yellow puddle, the children quickly used their watercolor pencils and water to mix and blend the red and yellow together. Before the teacher could turn the page, the children shouted "It makes orange!"