The Day the Colors Got Mixed Up
A Color Theory Adventure with Pixel and Hawel
Hawel wakes to find every color in the world swapped, banana blue, toast purple, sky doing something it shouldn't. With Pixel the butterfly, she sets off to find the Color Keeper and learn how red, yellow, and blue make every other color. A gentle first lesson in color theory.
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Talk about it together
Three questions to open a conversation, one for each part of the read.
- Before readingIf you could paint the sky any color at all, which one would you choose?
- While you readHawel is looking for the Color Keeper. What do you think the Color Keeper looks like?
- After readingRed, yellow and blue can make every other color. Which two would you mix first?
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