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Exploring green through mixing
This Art and design video supports teachers in delivering a lesson focused on refining painting techniques through colour mixing. Learners explore how to create and apply a variety of green shades by combining different types of blue and yellow. The activity encourages experimentation with tone and shade, helping children understand how subtle changes in mixing can create a wide range of results. The final outcome is a creative hand-shaped painting using five shades of green and imaginative patterns.
This video is part of Kapow’s Art and design resources, which support the Cambridge Primary Art & Design Curriculum Framework (0067). As part of the Painting and mixed media: Colour splash, unit, this lesson helps teachers feel confident guiding learners in more focused paint-mixing activities, while encouraging curiosity, precision and expressive decision-making. By exploring one of the most versatile colours in nature, learners deepen their understanding of colour relationships and develop greater control over their painting techniques.
