Inspired by our
Soil experiment I decided to bring out the colour wheel & paints so that we could make Brown!
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The first palette had blue and orange on it & Hug chose this one.
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Lovely chose the palette that had green and red on it.
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I showed them the
Colour Wheel & we talked about colour mixing and that when we mix colours that are on the opposite side of the colour wheel we make brown. There are different ways to make brown.
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Using watercolour paints wasn't my finest idea but it still kinda worked. Here's Lovely's brown.
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And Hug's, mid-mixing.
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And then we painted!