Vivid colour is part of children's everyday world, on bright plastics to food packaging to images on television. You can focus children's attention on colour by changing aspects of their experience. Turn the setting into a green environment; go black and grey and white; provide paints in a limited range of colours; look at things through tinted sunglasses and see how the colour changes; light up the role play area with pink lighting.
You can make colours with other colours, using paint, light or coloured acetate. You can make all colours with just the three primary colours, red, yellow and blue. White will create a tint and black a shade of any colour that you make.
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