9 Picture Books About Combining Colors
Combine art and science together with these 9 picture books about combining colors. From three primary colors, you can create three more secondary colors, plus if you add white or black you’ll get a wide range of shades and hues, exploring colors for days!
Mix these books with great activities for loads of fun this summer with kids. Check out activities like the walking rainbow, Skittles rainbow science, and mess-free color mixing with shaving cream for just a few activities that can keep kids engaged with learning something fun!
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9 Picture Books About Combining Colors
Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri
When Farmer Gray goes away, Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick, and White Duck decide to paint their black and white barnyard. Red Hen paints the barn red. White Duck paints the fence white. When Blue Goose and Yellow Chick mix their paints together they make green for grass and trees. By the time Farmer Gray returns the famr is filled with color. Focusing on primary and secondary colors, this story is a fun and friendly way for children to learn basic concepts. Now available as a sturdy board book, children can watch Farmer Gray’s inhabitants paint their world again and again.
Blue vs. Yellow by Tom Sullivan
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the Clash of the Colors!
BLUE VS. YELLOW!
Which one will be declared the best color of all?
Will they join forces and be mightier together?
Or . . . will another color challenge them for the title?
Ding! Ding! Let the battle begin!
Color Dance by Ann Jonas
The girl in red, the girl in yellow, the girl in blue, and the boy in black and white are all set to stir up the rainbow. Watch them create a living kaleidoscope, step by step by step.
Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni
Little Blue and Little Yellow are best friends, but one day they can’t find each other. When they finally do, they give each other such a big hug that they turn green! How they find their true colors again concludes a wonderfully satisfying story told with colorful pieces of torn paper and very few words. Leo Lionni launched his children’s book career in 1959 with Little Blue and Little Yellow, and this 50th-anniversary edition, complete with Lionni’s own explanation of how the book came to be, is sure to resonate with children today.
Mix It Up! by Hervé Tullet
With the graphic intensity of Eric Carle, the interactive fun of Poke-a-Dot books, and the humor of The Day the Crayons Quit but with a vision all his own, Hervé Tullet invites readers to MIX IT UP in a dazzling adventure of color and tones, filled with magic and wonder.
Follow the artist’s simple instructions, and suddenly colors appear . . . mix . . . splatter . . . and vanish in a vivid world powered only by the reader’s imagination. The result is not only enchantment and giggles, but a real and deeper understanding of colors brought by a true master of his craft.
Mixed! A Colorful Story by Arree Chung
The Blues, Reds and Yellows lived in harmony. Reds were the loudest, Yellows the brightest and Blues were the coolest. However when one of the colours proclaims they are the best, discord breaks out and eventually the colours decide to live in different parts of the city. Then one day a Yellow befriends a Blue and they become inseparable, discovering a world of different possibilities and colours. From the brilliantly talented Arree Chung comes a sweet tale of difference and acceptance. Mixed is a charming and timely story with characterful illustrations and humour.
Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin
Did you know that monsters love to scribble, scribble, mix, dance, and wiggle?!
Why? Because monsters love to make new colors!
Celebrate along with the hilarious monsters in this wild and energetic picture book. Mixing and discovering color has never been so much fun! Sure to spark the imaginative artist in everyone.
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
One day three white mice discover three jars of paint–red, blue, and yellow. But what happens when they splash in the colors, mixing the red and blue? Or dance in the blue and yellow? This playful introduction to colors will appeal to any budding artist or curious preschooler.
White Rabbit’s Color Book by Alan Baker
One inquisitive hop and splash goes White Rabbit into a bucket of yellow paint. Soon, the little rabbit is jumping from bucket to bucket and learning all about how colors mix. Toddlers will have fun and learn with “Little Rabbit Books, ” warmly illustrated in meticulous detail by Alan Baker. One inquisitive hop and splash goes White Rabbit into a bucket of yellow paint. Soon, the little rabbit is jumping from bucket to bucket and learning all about how colors mix.
