Color Mixing + Car Painting

Color mixing is a fun way to learn about primary and secondary colors. Just squirt two primary colors (red, blue, yellow) onto a paper plate. Kids can mix the colors together using their fingers, a brush, a sponge - anything.

Slowly we're seeing some green on the paper! What better way to learn that yellow + blue = green?

No activity happens without N begging to use cars, so we took it a step further and made a car painting. N drove his cars and trains through the newly-mixed green paint, then drove them across paper to make tracks. He had fun experimenting with different cars and trains and seeing the fun designs they made. If you're looking for a quick, simple art project, give this one a try!

Goodbye, Wondertime Magazine

I began subscribing to Wondertime Magazine when I was pregnant. It blew me away from the start: Here was a magazine geared towards intelligent adults who happened to have children. The articles were long and well-written, examining topics from world travel to preschool humor in a thought-out, intelligent manner. Articles about getting kids to eat broccoli were hilarious, and the product recommendations were for toys that were out-of the ordinary, promoting creativity or enchantment or learning that isn't shoved down a child's throat.

Unfortunately, Wondertime didn't make it; this spring, publication ceased. This magazine was a Disney production, though completely un-Disnified, and archives can still be found on the website of their sister publication, Family Fun. I hope you'll check out their archives - you might just find an inpsiring idea or two.

http://wondertime.go.com/

Here are a few articles worth looking at:

5 Ways to Help Kids Love Books

Look Sharp: A Sharpie Chromatography T-Shirt Project

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