How to Fix Food Coloring for Kids Snow Games

Coloring, drawing and painting in the snow is a fun outdoor activity to do with the kids in the winter. While playing with the colors in the snow, take advantage of the opportunity to teach children about mixing primary colors to make secondary colors.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Bottles
• Food coloring

1. Choose your bottles. Always use plastic plastic when working with children. Trigger spray bottles work well and so do squirt bottles, such as empty dish soap bottles. Use some of both so the kids can experiment with each type. You want at least one container for each child.

2. Fill your containers with water. If the containers are large, you might want to just fill them half way.

3. Add 2 to 3 drops of food coloring to each container of water. Close the container securely and shake to mix. If you are using a squirt bottle that has a hole in the top, hold your finger over the opening before shaking.

4. Make containers filled with each of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue. You can also mix secondary colors in advance, if you wish. Combine food coloring of each of the primary colors necessary to make the secondary. Or you might want to stick to just primary colors and let the kids discover how to mix the secondary colors when spraying their food coloring onto the snow.

5. Go outside with the children and let them have fun spraying and squirting their colored water onto the white snow. Show them how to mix red and yellow to make orange, red and blue to make green, and blue and red to make purple.

Tips & Warnings

• To do this activity indoors, have each child fill a container with snow and bring it inside. Cover your work area to prevent staining from the food color and then have the children spray and squirt the snow in the container with the colored water.
• Food coloring stains clothing, skin and other surfaces.