Mouse paint activities

Are you searching for a fun and engaging way to teach your young learners about color-mixing? Look no further! Our printable color-mixing worksheet is the perfect tool to help kids explore and understand the concept of combining different colors to create new ones. With clear instructions and a visually appealing layout, this worksheet provides an exciting hands-on experience for children aged 5 and above to learn about primary and secondary colors.

Mouse Paint: Water Balloon Painting. A fun, hands on color mixing activity to go along with the book Mouse Paint. Your Pre-K, Preschool, or Kindergarten kids will LOVE painting their mice! - Pre-K Pages

This is another little mouse book by Ellen Stoll Walsh. In this story the mice play in paint and use it to escape from a cat. I use this book to introduce/review color words at the beginning of the year. Here are some of our activities to go with the book. Click on each activity to grab your own copy. Here is a poem we put in our Poem and Song books. We highlight color words. This activity practices color words. We practice patterns with this activity. We read and spell color words with this…

This month we are spotlighting books by Ellen Stoll Walsh as part of our January Virtual Book Club for Kids! We love the book Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh so we decided to do a

Grab this printable emergent reader along with the other Mouse Paint activities to build literacy skills with young children.

Use a little mouse to help mix primary paint colors just like the book Mouse Paint!

Little Mouse, Little Mouse, Are you in a red house? Printable game. – Chicklink

The art room echoed "Oh look, green!" and "I just made orange!" as first graders overlapped primary colors to make a background for their Mouse Paint mice. I used Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint to reinforce the concept of primary and secondary colors. Students started with yellow cake tempera and painted about one third of their background, starting at the corner and brushing towards the center. Then, after getting their brushes REALLY clean they did the same with red paint, overlapping…

Kindergarten has been learning about colors and other elements of art. We have talked about the primaries but now we're moving on to secondary colors and how they're made! We read the book "Mouse Paint" that tells a "tail" of how 3 mice do some color mixing of their own and learn how from the primary colors (blue, yellow, and red) new colors such purple, green and orange are made. What a great book to show and explain color mixing! We had fun and use some old, boring brush---we used…