Colour investigations

This morning we have been doing some science investigations on our topic of colour. First, we were exploring what happens when different colours are mixed together. We knew from our work yesterday what happens when paint colours are mixed together, but what happens when you mix other things together? We explored mixing coloured water, coloured sand, coloured playdough, coloured play foam and different types of coloured paper and cellophane. Sometimes our predictions were right - red and yellow water did make orange water and we made purple playdough by mixing blue and red together. But sometimes we didn't get what we expected - blue and red water didn't really make purple and the grains of sand didn't mix together to make different colours, it just made multicoloured sand!

With Mrs Batson we explored oil paints and water and made some lovely marble pictures.

With Miss Ayres we did an investigation with skittles. We put 5 skittles in a clear pot and then dripped some water on with a pipette. Some of us thought the water might change the colour of the skittles and some of us thought the water would just make them wet. We had to keep watching the skittles and we saw the colours start to come off and make patterns! We tried the skittles in a different arrangement to make a different pattern.