Mouse Paint

I love this book. Have you read it? You should.

It is a great example of color mixing and very easy for children to really understand and come away with a better understanding of color mixing.

 

The idea of this story is that 3 white mice are hiding from a cat on white paper. They find 3 jars filled with the primary colors and they jump in. They each make a puddle of paint and a differnt mouse jumps in a new primary color...does a little jig..and makes a new color!

 

 

So. Our first step in the project is to of course read the book! After we read I refereed to the Mouse Paint poster I happened to pick up at a garage sale to reinforce how we make secondary colors.

 

This project is a two class project.

 

Day One: Mix the primary colors and paint 3 pieces of rectangle paper in the secondary colors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





That was the end of painting for day one! Then they worked on their art journals, which will be another post.

Now to my part...cutting out the mice.

 

 

 

 

Very time consuming...but so worth the final result!!

 

Wait til you see it :)

 

Thanks for reading.