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Home » Education » Homeschool Science » Learning About Colour and Light

Learning About Colour and Light

June 19, 2014 by Crystal McClean

Most of us take the beauty of colour and light for granted.  We see it all around us each day.  But children all love to  experience it for themselves and it’s fun to watch them learning with enthusiasm and wonder.

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This fun activity was created by the children themselves.  My parents had sent them penguin-shaped hand-charging flashlights about the same time that I had purchased some transparent counting chips (also known as old-fashioned bingo chips).

Tristan was using the counting chips while doing some math one dark winter morning at the kitchen table and became a bit distracted with his new flashlight.  He began stacking the chips up on the flat-topped lens and was enthralled with the coloured lights reflecting off of the ceiling.

stacking bingo chips on a flashlight to learn about colour mixing, preschool science, photo

Instead of becoming annoyed with Tristan for his distraction, I decided to let him have some fun learning about colour-mixing while he was interested and excited about it.

Tristan and Kallista brought out their new “game” each morning for days and learned their three primary colours: red, yellow, and blue.  Then they discovered how mixing these three colours together would create new colours on the ceiling.  Once they knew what these colour combinations would create they then had a ball piling up even MORE chips on the light and seeing how many new combinations they could come up with before the pile of chips became unstable and came toppling down to the table.

ooking at the colours reflecting off of the ceiling, early years science, colour mixing with light, Crystal's Tiny Treasures, photo

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It’s amazing the fun learning games children can come up with on their own just using the everyday items they have around them.  Over a year after they first happened upon this game, they still talk about it and bring the flashlight and chips to the table on occasion.  They’re disappointed at the moment because the summer days mean they wake up and go to bed with daylight so the flashlight doesn’t do its job very well.  On the other hand, the dark winter mornings are assured of being colourful ones this year!

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The children also learned about items that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

If you’d like to see more pre-school science activities, click over to our Sink or Float with Lemons and Limes, and our solar oven.  Explore our science  and summer fun pages as well for more great ideas!

Filed Under: Homeschool Science Tagged With: Colours, Experiments, Kindergarten, Preschool, Primary

About Crystal McClean

I am a Mom, Wife, Home Educator, and Virtual Assistant. We love to have fun together while learning and exploring our environment.

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Comments

  1. Carrie @ Crafty Moms Share says

    June 28, 2014 at 12:57 am

    What a great lesson and fun way to teach about color. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!

    • Crystal McClean says

      June 28, 2014 at 8:54 am

      hanks or dropping in, Carrie. The kids love doing this!

  2. Jill says

    June 29, 2014 at 8:45 pm

    This is a great experiment for kids to understand color. I love that you let your son explore color mixing also.

    Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

    • Crystal McClean says

      July 5, 2014 at 9:49 am

      Hi Jill, thank you for your comments, I hope our paths will cross again soon 🙂

  3. Carolyn Wilhelm says

    July 3, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    Oh, good to remember there are some benefits to winter, like flashlights work in the dark. These are nice activities for science and vocabulary. Thank you.

    • Crystal McClean says

      July 5, 2014 at 9:51 am

      Benefits to winter…I like that! I have a little girl who doesn’t like thunder at all, so this will come in handy for a fun distraction for her when the clouds come over 🙂 Have a super summer!

 
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