Colour My World #2: Shades and Tints

This week we explored Olympia and Jayla's colour inquiry.

Olympia noticed that there is no pink in the rainbow and she really wanted to add pink. But how do you make pink? Sophie guessed by adding the colours red and blue.  Jayla thought for a minute and said: "That makes purple. And you know, you can get different kinds of purple when you add red and blue together. There's light purple, medium purple and dark purple."

So to find out, the children started mixing colours to create different shades (by adding drops of black) and tints (by adding drops of
white)! They were amazed as the colours get darker/lighter by adding different amount of black/white. Olympia was ecstatic when she made pink with red and white.