Mess Free Colour Mixing

Contain the mess by mixing colours in Ziploc bags. Great sensory exploration for babies and toddlers!

Making secondary colours.

What you need:
- white card

- primary colour paint- red, blue and yellow (we used acrylic)
- Ziploc bags x 3
- tape
- orange, green and purple markers

The set up.

How it works:

I love coming up with sensory activities that both my kids can enjoy together. This simple colour mixing activity was mess free which made life much easier.

Start off by cutting the white card to size so that it fits inside the Ziploc bags. Then squirt a blob of each primary colour combination in opposing corners. Seal the bag and carefully tape it to the surface you will be working on. I also created a little challenge card for big bro. I simply wrote out the colour combinations and left space for him to write in the corresponding secondary colour.

Mixing the colours.

Baby sis and big bro loved getting to squish the paint in the bags. Straight away big bro knew that he needed to try and mix the colours to make a new one. As they squished the bags we talked about the concept of primary and secondary colours.

All the mess contained in the bags.

Once all three bags had been squished to death it was time for big bro to write the new colours down. As he is only 4 this was a good challenge of his literacy and writing skills. As you can see, baby sis was keen to help with this process too.

Writing out the secondary colours.

This was nice a quick to set up but kept them both amused for a good half hour. They even enjoyed using the marker caps to make marks on the bags after they'd finished the activity.