Color Mixing With Light
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Color mixing with light is a fun activity for kids to learn about what happens when you mix different colors. The thing is, light does not always react the same way as mixing colored paints. So we tried a little experiment to see what happens!
I used four small flashlights that I found for a dollar each at a local store. Then I covered each flashlight with a different color of cellophane sheets cut in half. We used red, yellow, green and blue. Wrap it with tape or rubber bands to secure it on.
Once the  flashlights were ready to go, we went to a dark room to try out our color mixing with light experiment!  I used a white poster board to shine the lights on, but a white wall will work just the same.
I have a printable Color Mixing with Light worksheet you can use to help you track the colors you make as you mix the lights. It has a coloring page to fill in the colors you see as well as some questions to full in about the results.  It is on my subscriber freebie page.
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It was so interesting to see the color combinations we could make with the colored flashlights! My kids were surprised to see that they could make white light when they mixed red green and blue! These three colors are called the primary colors of light.
Experiment with some color mixing to figure out some other fun color combinations!
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Wow! I have never thought of such experiment! Love it! Saving this idea for later
Could you use colored tissue paper instead of cellophane?
It may work but maybe not so clearly. It is definitely worth trying!
Yuo’re GREAT!!
I am LOVING these ideas. I used to be a classroom teacher for five years, but changed directions and currently work as an After School Teacher. I get to teach the STEM activities to grades 2-5. And started a ‘Glow’ unit recently. We are doing blacklight/glow in dark related activities but I’m going to transition it to colored light next and wow, love this! So simple yet so awesome to dive into colored light and all sorts of directions we can head in a hands on, fun way. Thanks for always posting such amazing stuff!
Thanks so much for your comment!! I am glad you found it useful. We sure had fun with it.
Could you publish a link to the worksheets? I cannot find them.
where i can find the worksheet the colour mixing with the lights
I was looking for the worksheets on the light color mixing.
thanks so much for the freebie