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Mouse Paint ~ Painted Rock Mice

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We had a blast doing our unit on colors. One of our favorite books from the unit was Mouse Paint. I never got around to posting about this, but when we read the book we made painted mice along with our mice paintings. Our little mouse project was inspired by our Itty Bitty Bookworm curriculum. We decided to make six mice so that we could mix the primary colors to make the secondary colors. After doing our color wheel MANY times, the kids knew exactly what to expect when we mixed the colors.

So, all you need are:

  • 6 rocks
  • yarn (red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange)
  • glue
  • markers
  • paint (red, yellow, blue)

We cleaned our rocks and while they dried, we mixed our primary color paints to make the secondary colors. We painted each of the rocks. Once dry we added yarn tails and gave them faces.

I was completely shocked a how much the kids LOVED playing with their rock mice! I should have expected this after they had so much fun with our God Rocks!!

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  1. julie

    May 4, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    Great mice, and great idea! I love how, because of the illustration style of the book, the mice actually look stylistically similar. I’m now imagining an entire playset for them, based on the book…

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  2. Nicole {tired, need sleep}

    April 25, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    These are so cute! I can just imagine how much fun they had with them. What a great hands on way to learn about mixing colors!

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  3. Ticia

    April 23, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    I’m not shocked at all. They turned out SUPEr cute!

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  4. Confessions Of A Homeschooler

    April 23, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    Those are too cute!

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