Slippin' Sliming

To support children's exploration in colour theory, I created an activity where children would mix together primary colours to explore secondary colours. To creatively engage children in this exploration I provided homemade yellow, red and blue slime. The children worked in pairs to mix the slime together, creating shades of purple, orange and green. Then, they recorded their finding on a worksheet that I made using Adobe Illustrator!

The objectives of this activity following Ontario's Kindergarten Program were:

• 31.1 Belonging and Contributing: Demonstrating knowledge and skills gained through exposure to and engaged in visual arts (i.e. explore different elements of visual arts - texture, colour).

• 10.3 Demonstrating Literacy and Mathematics: Demonstrate literacy behaviours that enable beginning writers to communicate with others.

Here is the activity!

Primary coloured slime!

The colours created when mixing the primary coloured slime together.

Some of the bags that the kids created during the activity.

Example of a worksheet for the activity.