Color Mixing

I've been eying color mixing charts for a while, and I finally decided to make them for myself. I've seen color mixing on a number of blogs, especially back in April and June... such as here, here, and here. Then I saw these AWESOME "shades of..." color mixing pages here! I immediately knew that I wanted to make something like them. So, I've created my version of shades of orange, green, and purple. The "shades of..." go from lightest to darkest around each circle, starting at the top.

Mama Jenn made an awesome (and FREE) primary and secondary color mixing chart, which you can find here. To go along with that, I created a tertiary color wheel, which I don't recall seeing on anyone's blog. There are 2 versions of it... first, as a color mixing activity, and then as a montessori-style matching activity (one page has labels at the bottom to be cut apart; the second page is the control).

Dropper activities made a comeback recently, with a posting here, but with a new twist of adding a grid for the kiddos to make their own designs, which was inspired by one of the Activity Mom's posts. I added to this download a grid of circles, so the kids can make their own designs. When cut in half, it is the size of the smaller tear-apart paper towels. I also added a couple of designs, in case the child needs a couple of ideas to get them inspired/started, similar to Little Hands, Big Work's example. (Sorry, I'm not very crafty, and I had trouble figuring out more patterns, other than a simple rectangle or star shape!)

You can download ALL of them HERE!

Hope you can use these! Lemme know what you think!