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Blue and Yellow Make Green

Wonderful Color Mixing

Day 22of 180
Week 5of 36
20Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand that blue and yellow create green when mixed

2

Practice mixing paint colors on a palette

3

Recognize God's creativity in color creation

📖 Scripture Connection

Genesis 1:31

“God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.”

— Genesis 1:31 (WEB)

Celebrating God's beautiful color creation through art exploration

📦 Materials Needed

  • Blue tempera paint
  • Yellow tempera paint
  • White paper
  • Paint brushes
  • Paper plates or palettes
  • Water cup
  • Paper towels
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Review yesterday's orange color mixing and introduce today's green adventure

💭 Review Question: What colors did we mix yesterday to make orange?
2Teaching (7 min)

Demonstrate color mixing with blue and yellow

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Look how blue and yellow make a brand new color - green!
  • Green is everywhere in God's wonderful creation
  • We can see green in grass, trees, frogs, and leaves
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • Can you name something in nature that is green?
  • What green things do you see around our home?
3Activity: Green Creation Painting (8 min)
hands-on

Mix blue and yellow to paint a green landscape

📝 Instructions:
  1. Put a little blue paint on one side of your palette
  2. Put yellow paint next to the blue
  3. Use your brush to mix blue and yellow together
  4. Watch the color change to green!
  5. Paint a picture with your new green color
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps child mix colors

Challenge: Child mixes different amounts of blue and yellow to create various green shades

4Closing (3 min)

Clean up and reflect on color mixing

📝 Review Questions:
  • What two colors did we mix today?
  • What color did we create?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll mix red and blue to make purple!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Color mixing helps develop understanding of primary and secondary colors

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use minimal paint to avoid mess
  • Protect work surface with newspaper
  • Praise effort over perfect results
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might mix colors too thoroughly or get frustrated with imperfect results

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Excitement about color transformation and willingness to experiment

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Take a nature walk to find green objects
  • Read a BibleMouse storybook about color creation
  • Create a green collage using magazine pictures

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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