Colour Wheels

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Teacher had some Quality Street chocolate wrappers. We could look through the papers and everything seems a lovely colour. When we mixed the colours together we could make new colours.

We discovered that:
red and yellow make orange,
red and blue make purple,
yellow and blue make green and
yellow, blue and red together make brown.
Mrs Newell had some coloured plastic sheets. We stuck these to the windows in different combinations and got the same results.

Next we made colour wheels and spun them using toothpicks. Teacher let us spin some with a motor. They spun really well, and made lots of different colours. We discovered that if you make a wheel with the 7 colours of the rainbow on it, that when it spins you can see a white light. Do you know the colours of the rainbow? We do. They are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.