Magic Color Lab
Pick two paint colors, tap Mix, and watch the magic happen. What does red and yellow make together? Grown-ups read the words; little ones do the choosing and the tapping.
No scores, no timers — just color magic.
Choose two colors to mix.
Tap one splash, then tap another. Both will jump into the pot — then press Mix!
The pot is waiting…
Pick two splashes to begin.
All three magic recipes
The pot keeps no secrets — here is every recipe, ready to check after each mix.
- + = Red + Yellow = Orange
- + = Blue + Yellow = Green
- + = Red + Blue = Purple
Real paint, real mixing.
The screen mixes light; real paints mix pigment — and real paint is the good kind of messy. Try the screen recipe with actual paint!
Repeat the screen mix
- Put out red, yellow and blue washable paint. Ask “what did red and yellow make on the screen?” — then find out for real, one spoonful at a time.
Guess before you mix
- Before every mix, let your child guess the result out loud. A wrong guess is a fine guess — the surprise is the lesson.
Paint a color card
- Paint the new color onto paper and write its name together. Three mixes later, you have a color-mixing chart made by your child.
One safety word for this game: use washable, child-safe paints, cover the table, keep paint away from mouths, and wash hands when the mixing is done. A grown-up stays close — mixing is a two-person magic show.
Three recipes, one little artist!
You mixed orange, green and purple from just three brave colors. Whether you mixed once or twenty times, you now know the painter’s biggest secret: new colors were hiding inside the old ones all along.
Why only three colors?
Red, yellow and blue are the classic preschool painting trio — the colors children actually hold in their hands at the kitchen table, so the screen game and the paint set tell the same story. Three choices also keep the game decidable for a three-year-old: every pair makes something new, so every choice is a good one.
Like the paint-mixing pot in the Colors & Color Mixing class, this game is honest about screens: monitors mix light, paints mix pigment, and the two do not mix quite the same way. The off-screen paint activity is where the lesson becomes finger-deep and true — the game builds the want, the kitchen table builds the knowing.
There is nothing to win here. If your child mixes the same pair eleven times, that is eleven wins.
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