The Rainbow Colour.

Wednesday（25/04/2012）



a) The design.

 The kids and I discussed about the wall paint. A few suggested that we draw pictures. However, mostly wanted it to be painted. They said that the bricks with cement won’t look nice with pictures. We thought of colours and finally different ideas have produced rainbow colour.

 We went through the colour of rainbow which was “Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo (dark blue) and violet (purple and pink mixture). For Chinese version of Rainbow Colour, violet is purple. Thus, I shall use purple not to confuse kids.

 Kids were divided into 6 groups. 4 groups for each side of the wall, 1 group for the stools, 1 group for the castle top.



b) The Painting Activity.

 Only a few kids remembered bringing old t-shirts. Anyway, they were given an apron, a brush and a bowl of paint to share with.

 I poured paint into the bowl. The kids poured a little water and they mixed it thoroughly. They were co-operative at painting. They learnt the mixture of different colour produced different colours.

 Red + Blue = Purple. Yellow + Red = Orange. White + Blue = Light Blue.

 Then, they helped at washing the brushes, bowls and clearing the area.

 Tomorrow, we shall continue with the inside items such as binoculars and etc.