Colour Cookies

Young kids love to bake. This activity lets them go frosting crazy, while experimenting with colours, and how they mix. Once the science experiment is done, it’s time for milk and cookies!

What You Need:

• Sugar cookies (either homemade or store bought)
• Food colouring
• White frosting
• 10 small plastic bowls
• Set of measuring spoons
• Larger spoon for mixing (like a tablespoon)

What You Do:

1. Explain to your child that there are three fantastic colour's, called the primary colour's, that can be mixed to create different colour's.
2. Together, put 3 tablespoons of frosting in 3 different bowls. Add food colouring to the frosting so that you have 1 bowl of each of the primary colours (red, yellow, and blue.)
3. Show your child how various colours can be made by mixing equal amounts of these primary colours, to make new colours. (For example, Red + Yellow = Orange; Red + Blue = Purple, Yellow + Blue= Green.)
4. Let your child explore. Have her scoop a tablespoon of 2 colours of her choosing into an empty bowl and mix them, to see what colour it makes. She can continue doing this with all of the other empty bowls. She can also experiment with creating different shades, depending on how much food colouring is added to the white frosting, and she can add white frosting to an already mixed bowl, to see how it adjusts the colour.

Once the novelty wears off, it’s time to decorate! Grab the plate of cookies and ask your child to do her magic, using whichever combination of colours she’d like. Pour two glasses of milk, and enjoy!