If you're looking for colour mixing activities, we have a treat for you today! We've rounded up our favourite colour mixing activities and creative colour wheel ideas. With over twenty different options, you're sure to find some fun activities to try. They're great for teaching toddlers and preschoolers their colours, as well as for older children wanting to explore colour mixing.
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If you want to teach your toddler or preschooler all about colours, these activities are sure to help them learn through play. We have a range of options from painting, science experiments, and even some of our favorite ideas from other creators. There's no shortage of ideas here!
Scroll down below to check out all these fun colour mixing activities and creative colour wheel ideas!
Colour Mixing Activities
Colour Wheels
One of the most obvious ways to practice colour mixing is by creating your own colour wheels. Here are some of our favorite ideas.
Printable Colour Wheel
Make your own colour wheel with this printable colour wheel for kids! Toddlers and preschoolers can practice colour mixing while they make a colour wheel to reference later.
Turtle Colour Wheel Craft
If a regular colour wheel isn't quite interesting enough, you can try this colour wheel turtle craft! Kids will have so much fun making this cute turtle while they explore colours.
Colour Wheel Art
This colour wheel is even more interesting than using paint! Kids will love creating a colour wheel art project from coloured tissue paper and modge podge.
Colour Wheel Flower
This colour wheel flower is from our book 'Fun Painting Projects for Kids'. Use a paper plate to create a flower shape with 6 petals and then paint the petals in primary and secondary colours.
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Colour Mixing Painting Activities
Using paint is a great way to explore colour. Here are some fun and easy colour mixing ideas using paint.
Colour Mixing Bird Activity
If you just want to experiment with mixing just two primary colours together, then you will love this colour mixing bird activity! It's such a fun colour mixing activity and young children will love giving their birds personalities once the paint has dried.
Monster Colour Mixing Art Activity
Have even more fun with these cute monsters! Kids will love colour mixing monsters and getting to decorate them with this adorable project idea.
Skin Colour Paint Mixing
Painting skin colour can feel like an impossible task. This activity will show you how to make skin colour paint! It's such an interesting colour mixing activity kids are sure to enjoy.
Colour Mixing Pumpkin Craft
Pumpkins aren't just for Halloween! With this colour mixing project, kids will get to explore mixing red and yellow with a paper plate pumpkin craft.
No Mess Rainbow Colour Mixing Activity
This colour mixing activity is great for the youngest toddlers. They will love mixing colours inside a ziplock bag with this rainbow art activity. And there's practically no mess!
Colour Mixing Printables
We also have lots of printable packs in our shop specifically for colour mixing! You're sure to have lots of fun with these.
Colour Mixing Printable Pack
Explore colour mixing in all kinds of different ways with this printable pack! The colour mixing printable pack includes pages for primary colours, secondary colours, shades, tints, the colour wheel, and more.
Spring Colour Mixing Worksheets
These spring themed colour mixing worksheets are so much fun! They include pages to practice mixing colours with flowers, ladybugs, butterflies, and more.
Colour Wheel Printables
These colour wheel printables are perfect for kids just starting to learn about their colours. They can cut a colour wheel, practice colour mixing, and it includes an information page.
Elements of Art: Colour Pack
Learn all about colour in this elements of art: colour pack! It's part of a series so check out the full elements of art bundle, too. This pack includes the colour wheel, explanations of art form, and ideas for exploring.
Colour Mixing Water Play
If you're looking for something a bit different, you'll love these fun water play ideas! It's such a fun way to explore colours.
Colour Mixing Water Activity
Sensory activities are a great way to help kids learn through play! This water play activity is so much fun for little ones. Toddlers and preschoolers will love engaging in a colour mixing water play activity.
Magic Paper Towel Art
You'll really amaze your little ones with this magic paper towel art activity! We love exploring colours by drawing on paper towels and watching the drawing bleed through!
Colour Mixing Coffee Filters
Making art with coffee filters is such a fun way to explore colours. You'll be amazed at the way colours blend together! Try out this colour mixing coffee filter project with your toddler or preschooler.
Colour Mixing Science Experiments
Is there anything better than practicing colour mixing with science experiments? We had so much fun with each of these activities, and they can all be used as a starting point to discuss colour and colour mixing.
Walking Water Science Experiment
If you've never tried a walking water science experiment, it's a must! It's so cool to watch the colours bleed together, and it's super simple to set up.
Colour Changing Flowers
If you like the walking water experiment, you'll also enjoy watching these flowers change colour! It's so much to watch, and kids are amazed by it. Try the colour changing flower project for yourself!
Coloured Sugar Cubes Experiment
Playing with sugar cubes is so much fun for kids. Explore colours with this fun coloured sugar cubes experiment! You can even use them to extend play and learning when you're done.
Fizzy Rainbow Science
Fizzy science experiments are so much fun! Kids will enjoy watching the colours bubble up with this fizzy rainbow science project. It's such a simple project, but so much fun, you might end up doing it over and over!
Rainbow Skittles Experiment
Ah, the classic rainbow skittles experiment! Kids will love watching all the colours bleed together in this one. Perfect for exploring different colours and how they mix together.
More Colour Mixing Ideas
If you're looking for even more colour mixing ideas, here are some more activities, including some from some of our favourite creators!
Dye Sand at the Beach
If you're ever at the beach, try dying sand to make some cool coloured sand castles! See how to dye beach sand - it's such a cool idea for exploring colour.
Crayon Suncatcher Art
Use leftover broken crayons to create these cool crayon suncatcher art pieces. Kids will love seeing how everything blends together when they're melted down!
Paper Marbling with Shaving Cream
Shaving cream activities are so much fun for toddlers and preschoolers. This paper marbling with shaving cream project allows you to create a cool art piece! You could add more colours and see how things mix.
Colour Mixing Tissue Paper Hearts
These tissue paper hearts look so cute! It's so cool to see how the colours blend together. You could even try making them into a card to gift.
Marble Rolling Art Activity
If you have some marbles, try this marble rolling art activity with some paint! It's a great way to display how colours will mix together. Plus, you get a cool-looking art piece at the end.
You could also do this on a huge scale, as we did in one of the projects in our book, 'Fun Painting Projects for Kids'.
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Mixing Colours Activity
Another fun activity from our 'Fun Painting Projects for Kids' book is this mixing colour activity, where you use an egg carton as a paint palette and see how many different colours you can create. To add to the fun, see if you can name the colours you have created!
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Melted Crayons Activity
Explore how colours will melt together with this rainbow crayon activity. It's great fun to make the crayons and then to use them afterwards in other art projects.
We hope you found lots of fun colour mixing activities and creative colour wheel ideas to try! With so much variety, I just know you'll have lots of fun exploring colours for months to come.
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