Materials
Red tempera paint
Blue tempera paint
Q-tips
Piece of white paper, taped to table
Directions
Place a small squirt of red tempera paint (about the size of a nickel) on your toddler’s paper. Squirt a similar amount of blue paint next to the red. Give your child a Q-tip, and encourage him to mix the two colors together. As he does so, encourage him to make marks on his paper with the Q-tip. What color are the marks? Ask him if he can create a new color by mixing red and blue together. What is he seeing?