Year 1 The seasons: painting and colour mixing worksheet

“Mixing Spring Greens” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 art unit “The seasons: painting and colour mixing”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 15 to 20 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Mixing Spring Greens

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Art & design · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can mix yellow and blue to make different greens.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the name of this colour.
redpinkbrown
2.
Circle the name of this colour.
bluebrownblack
3.
Circle the colour of a carrot.
orangepurplegrey

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola wants to paint a leaf. She mixes yellow and blue on a plate.

A leafy plant in a pot with green leaves in several shades, against a plain background

Watch me

Yellow and blue make green.

Ola adds a little more blue.

The green gets darker.

Now you

1.
Ola adds more yellow to her green. How does her green change? Circle the word.
lighterdarker
2.
Ola mixes yellow and blue for her leaf. What colour does she make? Circle the right word.
purplegreenorange

C Your turn8 min

Look at the colours, then answer each question.

1.
Yellow and blue make ___. Circle the right word.
greenorangepurple
2.
Ola mixes lots of yellow with a little blue. What colour does she make? Circle the right word.
orangegreenpurple
3.
A green gets more blue added. The green becomes ___. Circle the right word.
lighterdarker
4.
Pale lime and mint have lots of yellow. Forest and deep moss have lots of blue. Write each green in the right column.
pale limemintforestdeep moss
Lighter green Darker green

Say it out loud: Which way did the green change each time, and what did you add?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “I will mix red and blue to make green leaves.”

1.
What colour do red and blue really make? Circle the right word.
purplegreenorange

E Think deeper4 min

A garden path lined with bushes and plants in many shades of green

1.
Find two greens in the garden picture that look different. Tell your grown-up which one has more yellow in it, and how you know.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Mixing Spring Greens · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. red

2. blue

3. orange

B

1. lighter If they circle darker, they may be remembering that blue makes a green deeper. Yellow makes it brighter. Ask: is yellow a pale paint or a deep paint?

2. green If your child circles orange or purple, they may be mixing up the pairs. Yellow and blue make green. Ask your child to mix a drop of each on a plate.

C

1. green If they circle orange, they may be thinking of red and yellow. Point to the two colour chips and ask which two were mixed.

2. orange If they circle orange, they may think lots of yellow changes the colour. Yellow and blue always make green. More yellow makes a lighter green.

3. darker If they circle lighter, they may think any new paint makes it paler. Ask: was the new paint blue or yellow?

4. Darker green: forest, deep moss · Lighter green: pale lime, mint If a card is in the wrong column, ask which paint makes green lighter. More yellow makes it lighter. More blue makes it darker.

D

1. purple your child may be mixing up the two colours that make green. Red and blue make purple. Ask your child to mix a drop of each on a plate.

E

1. Look for: Names two different greens and says the lighter one has more yellow, or the darker one has more blue.

Words to use

Say“Which two colours did you mix? What happened when you added more blue?”

Instead of“Green is made from yellow and blue, so just remember that.”

After the sheet

Dab yellow and blue paint or crayon on paper. Add more blue, then more yellow, and line up the greens from darkest to lightest.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Autumn oranges(with a plan)
Making summer purples(with a plan)
Hot and Cold Colours(with a plan)
Plan a Season Picture(with a plan)
Painting the Seasons(with a plan)

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