Learning the color wheel is a delicious experience when you experiment with icing and cookies. This hands-on activity lets children mix and match colors while creating a yummy snack. Since the lesson is so memorable, kids usually come away with a solid understanding of the color wheel.
Instructions
1. Give your child a plate with three globs of white vanilla frosting on it. Drip blue food coloring on one glob, red on another and yellow on the third and mix the colors. Don't mix the three colors together. Explain to your child that these are primary colors.
2. Spread red frosting on one vanilla wafer, blue on another and yellow on the third. Remind your child that they will eat the cookies once the color wheel is complete, but not before. Set the cookies aside in a triangular grouping.
3. Introduce secondary colors by mixing two of the primary colors on another part of the plate. When you mix red and blue, frost another cookie and place it between the red cookie and green cookie on your triangle. Do the same with red and yellow and blue and yellow. Spread the cookies into a circle.
4. Fill in the rest of your circle by mixing your secondary colors to make tertiary colors to frost more cookies. Add them to the wheel as you did in Step 3.
5. Take a photo of your color wheel, and then eat the colorful snack.
