Color Blending for Science and Fine Motor Skills Expansion

Have fun mixing colors with your students (even the older students enjoy this activity).

You will need:

½ cup of water

½ cup salt

1 tsp. Oil

food coloring ( red, blue & yellow)

Choose 1 color and mix the above ingredients ( you will need to make this recipe 3 times – one for each primary color)

Add - gradually (approximately) 1 ½ cups of flour

and 1 tsp. Cornstarch

Knead until the mix forms a ball that is malleable.

Once the 3 colors of salt dough have been made – give the student the dough and encourage them to break off pieces of the 'colors' and blend to create new colors. Challenge them to see how many colors they can come up with – if you would like to add some additional color options – make a 4^th mix with no additional color – to create variations like pink, lt. Blue, peach, etc......

This is an excellent science project for your early learners as well as incorporating some great fine motor work into the classroom.