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Red and Blue Make Purple

Wonderful Color Mixing

Day 23of 180
Week 5of 36
20Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand that mixing red and blue creates purple

2

Experiment with paint mixing techniques

3

Develop appreciation for God's colorful creation

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalm 104:24

“Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.”

— Psalm 104:24 (WEB)

Celebrates God's creative design, including the wonderful world of colors

📦 Materials Needed

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

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Review yesterday's color mixing lesson about green, show excitement about today's purple adventure

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

Introduce purple as a magical color made by mixing red and blue

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Red is a warm, bright color
  • Blue is a cool, calm color
  • When we mix them together, we get PURPLE!
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • Can you name something purple in God's creation?
  • What do you think about this new color?
3Activity: Purple Painting Party (8 min)
hands-on

Children will mix red and blue to create purple, then paint grapes, flowers, or butterflies

📝 Instructions:
  1. Put a small amount of red paint on one side of the plate
  2. Put blue paint next to the red paint
  3. Use a clean brush to mix red and blue in the middle
  4. Watch the purple color appear!
  5. Paint a picture using your new purple color
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps mix colors

Challenge: Try creating different shades of purple

4Closing (3 min)

Clean up and reflect on our color mixing adventure

📝 Review Questions:
  • What colors did we mix today?
  • What did you paint with purple?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about the rainbow color wheel!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Color mixing helps develop early scientific observation skills

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Let child explore and experiment
  • Praise effort over perfect results
  • Use gentle guidance
🤔 Common Struggles:

Keeping paint on the paper, not mixing colors too much

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Excitement about color discovery, willingness to experiment

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Read BibleMouse storybook about colors
  • Collect purple items around the house
  • Make a purple collage from magazine cutouts

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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