Are you hungry yet after reading our other posts on Mad About Town this week?
But food can be more than just to fill your belly and something to enjoy and socialize over … FOOD & COLOR can be a great theme for you and your kids!
From Mad Max: Mommy said “Kiwi Face” so I did this. I always make sure that my food is like a color wheel each day and week!
Theme: Food and Color
You and your kids can learn more about food through color, AND you can learn more about color through food!
Where to start? I suggest starting with the produce aisle. You can choose to get just fruit, or just veggies (or both).
Here’s an example:
Visit the produce aisle with your kids to make the experience even more enjoyable. You can have them (depending on their age of course) help you pick fruit to closely match as possible the colors on the color wheel.
Primary Colors: Start with the Primary Colors … Red, Yellow, and Blue. You can choose a red apple, yellow banana, and blue blueberries. What other fruits could you choose?
Secondary Colors: Then move to the Secondary Colors. Now is a great opportunity to talk about mixing colors! Your kids are never too young. I even talk to Mad Max about color mixing. Red and Yellow make Orange … so you might pick an orange. Red and Blue make Purple, maybe some grades that are purple? Yellow and Blue make Green … kiwi would be Mad Max’s choice!
Fruit Color Wheel: Take your fruit home, and create your fruit color wheel with your kids! Has it been a while since you made a color wheel? No fear. Do you remember ROYGBiV? Start with RED at the top of your wheel (R). Next is orange to the right (O). then yellow (Y), green (G), blue (B), violet (or purple) (V) until you complete your wheel (or circle).
What’s next? Be sure to talk about your color wheel. Save it! Well, don’t actually save it. That would be really gross (eventually), but take a photo of the Fruit Color Wheel. Then the best part … eat your edible color wheel.
You can extend the activity by making art color wheels with the kids, and you can also learn about Complementary Colors and Tertiary Colors. Let us know if you need some art activity ideas for color wheels.
Have you made a food color wheel before? Or other color wheels? We look forward to hearing from you!