Picture Books We Love: Mouse Paint

I was first introduced to Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh when one of our local librarians shared a reading list for preschoolers with me.  We borrowed it from the library and really enjoyed it.  Then, my mother-in-law, a.k.a. Nana, who always brings us tons of wonderful books, brought it for Maggie.  This is a fun book to teach children their primary and secondary colors. 

There are three white mice and three jars of paint, one red, one yellow, one blue.  Each white mouse climbs into a different jar, which predictably results in one red mouse, one yellow mouse and one blue mouse.  They make paint puddles on a white piece of paper and dance in the puddles.  The red mouse turns the yellow puddle orange.  The yellow mouse turns the blue puddle green.  The blue mouse turns the red puddle purple.  The mice then clean themselves off and paint the white paper instead.  First, they paint the paper red, yellow and blue.  Then, they mix colors to paint the paper orange, green and purple.

After reading this book, we mixed paints ourselves to make new colors (we did not dance in puddles, although I'm sure my girls would have really, really enjoyed that)!  Fun, fun, fun!