Every color day, I make a bottle of colored water. Of course, on
the secondary color days I miraculously "can't find" the orange,
green and purple "rainbow drops", so we brainstorm how we will
make it. Eventually, the children come up with mixing the colors
and we create "magic" in the bottles using the primary colored
water. The really neat thing is that when you hold the bottles
one in front of the other (ex. red in front of yellow), you can
actually see it making orange before you actually mix the colors
together! We make mosaic rainbows on black paper. I just cut
strips of each rainbow color and then cut squares and rectangles
(to also reinforce our basic shape unit we do at the beginning
of the year). I copy a rainbow onto black paper that has Rs
where the the red shapes go, Os where the orange shapes go, etc.
This is so fun and makes a great display when they are all done.
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