Cooking Kids

An easy way to teach preschoolers about mixing colors is by baking up a batch of cupcakes. All you need is a couple cans of icing, a box of food colors and some cupcakes. While the cupcakes bake, have your child spoon a few tablespoons of white icing into small bowls. Then have them color each bowl with food coloring. Traditional food colors include red, green, yellow and blue.

Once they’ve made the primary colors, have them create secondary colors by adding a different color to each bowl. For example, add red to blue and you’ll get purple. Add yellow to blue and you’ll get green. You get the picture. This is a fun way to teach kids colors, while at the same time letting them bake up a batch of colorful cupcakes.

By Rhyah Fletcher

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