Any one who knows me will know that mixing plasticine is not an activity I would suggest. After watching a Claymation - Colo[u]r Wheel, Cakes requested we mix colours. With her obsession with colours continuing now for over a year, I thought we might just be able to watch and discuss the colour mixing. As I do not buy many consumables in secondary colours, Cakes is very good at picking what colour we are making based on which ever primary colours she sees me with, "are we making green Mum, you have blue and yellow". So when she requested mixing the plasticine like in the clip how could I say no.
She set out with blobs of plasticine and rolled them out into snakes, this took a while as the plasticine became more malleable. Once she had the snakes it was a bit of rolling, a bit of pushing and a few requests for help. it is a hard task to get it to all mix together into one uniform colour (but well worth it). Once Cakes was happy with her blobs of colours we rolled them into balls and that is how they stayed for some time. |
A little later Cakes returned to make a rainbow using her colours. Placing them in order was something that confused her. She had rolled each colour into a snake with a variety of different lengths. She instinctively started lining them up longest to shortest. We discussed what a rainbow looks like. We both agreed that red is at the top and each colour has the secondary colour between the primary colours, however Cakes did not like purple being at the bottom and kept moving red underneath and back to the top again. We did some research in story books and on the internet before Cakes settled on this (and was happy about her choice).
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