True Colours
Episode 42 Planet: Light and Colour
Learning concept of the episode: The three primary colours – red, yellow and blue can be mixed to make other colours.
Story Summary
Bing and Bong arrive on the Tiny Planet of Light and Colour, ready to explore the beautiful pools of paint. Bing watches as Bong has fun marching through puddles of Red, Yellow and Blue and discovers that the footprints Bong leaves behind combine to form new colours in the places where they overlap. The pair stumble upon a rainbow of Locals sunning at the blue pool of paint. Bong dives into the pool with a giant splash, covering the Locals. Now Bing must figure out how to restore each to it’s natural colour. Inspired by Bong’s overlapping footprints, Bing comes up with a plan to combine different colours, restoring the green, orange and purple Locals back to normal.
Focus Early Learning Goal
Creative Development 1: Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions
Linked ELGs
PSE2, PSE4, KU1, KU3, C4
Preparation
- Watch the Tiny Planets episode
- Talk about what Bing and Bong did in the story
Talk about…..
- How Bing and Bong came upon colour mixing
- Rainbows
- Favourite colours
- Primary Colours
Focus Activity
Colour Mixing Hands (see overleaf)
Follow-on Activities
- Painting Rainbows
- Looking through coloured cellophane
- Stained glass windows
- Singing songs about colour
Colour Mixing Hands
Aim
To introduce basic colour mixing in an easy to understand manner
Resources
- 3 trays
- Red, Yellow and Blue paint
- A2 white paper
- Bowl of water
- Towel
Guidelines
- In small groups sit the children around a covered table and have the bowl of water nearby
- Put one colour of the paint into each tray
- Ask the children to choose two of the colours, then to place the palm of their left hand in one colour and right hand in the other colour
- Ask them to do a hand print with their left hand on the left side of the paper and their right hand on the right side
- Then ask them to rub their hands together mixing the colours
- They can then print both hands of the mixed colour in the centre
- Wash hands
- Repeat with other colours (optional)
Key Vocabulary
Red, yellow, blue, orange, green, purple, mix, print
Health & Safety
Ensure that the children wash and dry hands and that no water is spilt onto the floor which could cause a person to slip
Make sure that no child has a skin allergy to the paint
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