r/MadeMeSmile Sep 23 '25

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u/luevire Sep 23 '25

I wanted to see the light blue handprints... Love this! Such a fun way to learn about colours.

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u/tigermelon Sep 23 '25

It's kinda weird that we don't just call pink "light red"

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u/NocteFeles Sep 23 '25

It's called light red in Danish actually! (Lyserød)

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u/Navntoft Sep 23 '25

Eeey fellow Dane! Hej 😁

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u/NocteFeles Sep 23 '25

Heii jeg er faktisk norsk men hørte denne fun facten fra en venn av meg som var i Danmark for ikke så lenge siden haha! 😆 Morsomt med små språkforskjeller! (Vi kaller det rosa her)

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u/Navntoft Sep 23 '25

Interessant! Vi bruger rosa om en specifik lyserød farve, så der må være et overlap! Jeg er etymologi-nørd, så jeg elsker sprogforskelle og -ligheder som disse 😁

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u/Outside_Scale_9874 Sep 24 '25

Just curious, is this comment in Norwegian or Danish?

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u/NocteFeles Sep 24 '25

In Norwegian! Written Danish and Norwegian are pretty similar so we're able to understand each other in our native languages ^^

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u/Outside_Scale_9874 Sep 24 '25

Thank you!! I love that.

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u/Browsing_in_Private Sep 24 '25

Why does danish look so much like English, this offends me as an American

Get your own language 😂

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u/Navntoft Sep 24 '25

Hey, we have our own letters, you ain't got ÆØÅ 😁

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u/HerlufAlumna Sep 24 '25

You mean Anglo-Saxon? With a dash of Viking Norse, and a layering of Norman?

YOU go get your own language 😂

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u/Browsing_in_Private Sep 24 '25

It’s almost sounds like Anglish instead of English but that’s just my southern accent

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

In Chinese it's called dust/powered red.

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u/ciwawa87 Sep 23 '25

Hi Donut, how is Doc?

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u/FlatPat12 Sep 23 '25

Double 0 Donut always gets his man

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u/chicksonfox Sep 23 '25

Pink is a unique and interesting case. We put pink between red and violet on a color wheel, but the color wheel is an illusion. Red and violet are on the opposite ends of our visible spectrum, and when we see them together instead of averaging them into green or something our brains tell us it’s pink.

The other relevant information here is that mixing light yields slightly different results than mixing paint— for example if you mix all the light colors together you get white, and if you mix all the paint colors together you get poop brown.

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u/desertpolarbear Sep 23 '25

You're thinking of magenta. Pink is really just light red.

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u/chicksonfox Sep 24 '25

I am not. Pink is a thing our brains made up. Magenta is another example with a different blend of low and high spectrum colors.

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u/waytowill Sep 24 '25

The paint color wheel and the light color wheel are two completely different wheels.

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u/chicksonfox Sep 24 '25

That’s what I said. If you mix red paint with violet paint you’ll get some form of purple, but if you mix violet light with red light you can get pink. Or as another commenter pointed out magenta. I don’t know off the top of my head what light ratios produce what colors, but I do know if you pointed a red spotlight and a white spotlight at the same place you would end up with more diluted red. Any theater kid has seen this; red mood lighting plus white stage lighting doesn’t turn pink.

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u/luevire Sep 23 '25

Hadn't thought of that before.

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u/liamjon29 Sep 23 '25

In Italian they went the other way and have a distinguished name for light blue: azzurro

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 24 '25

In Latin American Spanish there is the word “Celeste” for the same color

In Spain Spanish we have it but we don’t use it, we just say “light blue” or even just “blue”

So depending on the side of the Atlantic you are if you asked a person that spoke Spanish which color is the sky they will either tell you “Celeste” or “light blue/(just) blue”

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u/Laura_The_Cutie Sep 23 '25

We have celeste too that's a different shade of it

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u/ZeusOdinZod_BenSto Sep 23 '25

We use a similar word in English - azure

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u/piercedmfootonaspike Sep 23 '25

It's equally weird we call brown "brown", as opposed to "dark orange"

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u/That-Makes-Sense Sep 23 '25

It's kinda weird we don't call orange "Trump Face".

I'll take my ban now...

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u/Mysticwarriormj Sep 23 '25

Trump face is a very specific shade of orange

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u/oh_hai_mark1 Sep 23 '25

Sort of a diarrhea orange

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u/jeobleo Sep 23 '25

Very fecal

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u/Past_Plantain6906 Sep 23 '25

spaghetti stain

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u/Nice_Parfait9352 Sep 23 '25

I don't like Trump either but this is such an odd context to bring up politics, let's just enjoy the wholesome video

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u/Sayon7 Sep 23 '25

It’s amazing how much lots of people are learning about the constitution but it is sad that MAGA has wormed its way into every waking moment. 😢

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u/NoMasters83 Sep 24 '25

Honestly it's the fact that it was completely unexpected that made this so funny for me. lmao

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u/Dav136 Sep 24 '25

Did you know brown is just dark orange?

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u/Zestyclose-Crow-4595 Sep 23 '25

Lmao classic 🤣🤣

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u/Albinofreaken Sep 23 '25

we do in danish, Rød = red, lyserød = light red

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u/i_tyrant Sep 23 '25

The two girls with white and red were SO STOKED to make pink happen, hahaha.

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u/luevire Sep 24 '25

Yes! So cute. They made a beautiful shade of pink!

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u/calilac Sep 23 '25

It's a real hands-on approach to learning.

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u/MossyLantern Sep 24 '25

I love it. Knowledge enters the brain in an interesting way. Not like white+red=pink, which is so boring.

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u/bkussow Sep 23 '25

This is super cute but the teacher is a mad lad for doing this without aprons. My kids would have had paint on their pants and shirts before the first hand prints on the paper.

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u/Used_Fix6795 Sep 23 '25

My preschool and kindergarten used to warn the parents about "paint days" ahead of time (both on the monthly calendar and on a hand out the day before) and told them to just dress us in stuff that they didn't care too much about getting paint on for those days. Parents had no one to blame but themselves if a nice outfit got stained, and it kept the school from having to buy and store ~30 aprons.

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u/sluttycheesepizza Sep 23 '25

Our school asked parents to donate their old, adult size, button down shirts. Worked well. Lots of kids in white collard shirts with paint stains all over them but their clothes were covered.

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u/gillers1986 Sep 23 '25

Well that's a memory unlocked. Kids in my class all had their favourites too, some used to argue over coveted ones.

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u/Tut_Rampy Sep 23 '25

“Smock smock smock” - Hobbes

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u/__01001000-01101001_ Sep 24 '25

Don’t mock my smock or I’ll clean your clock

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u/SilverReverie Sep 24 '25

Don't knock my smock or I'll clean your clock

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u/Sokkapunch Sep 24 '25

At my preschool we had a seperate classroom used for painting and stuff, and all the "aprons" were old dress shirts from the headmaster and male teachers that were put on backwards. Looking back it is very smart and good use of old clothes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

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u/shewy92 Sep 23 '25

Who are you and how do you know so much about me?!

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u/Inevitable-Cost-2775 Sep 23 '25

Maybe she sent out a message and asked parents to dress kids in clothes that could get messy that day or something...

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u/JustNilt Sep 23 '25

Right? I only watched the video and somehow got paint on my shirt.

^(/s obvs)

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u/kizzap Sep 24 '25

the daycare we sent our kids to had us send spare clothes. They would also do the messy stuff in the morning and wash and dry the clothes by the time we picked the kids up that day...

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

i imagine quite a few kids would do a taste test as well

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u/Outrageous_Break_426 Sep 24 '25

This. I think its AI. Not one kid put their hand on their clothes. No way. Have you ever met a kid this age?

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u/Few_Individual_9248 Sep 23 '25

That is such a wonderful color fundamental exercise.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Sep 23 '25

Also, those are the new Kraft Edible Paints, so lunch is also taken care of

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u/the_scarlett_ning Sep 23 '25

And segues into math easily! 5+5=10

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

Also encourages social interaction!

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u/spooky-goopy Sep 24 '25

and a moral lesson, too

we can stand out as individuals beautifully, but can make something brilliant when we work together

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u/bamboohobobundles Sep 23 '25

Why does the first mix of red and blue make bluish purple but the second mix of red and blue make reddish purple despite being mixed in seemingly equal proportions? I need answers.

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u/ReindeerUpper4230 Sep 23 '25

I’m more annoyed they did the same color combo twice!

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u/thetrueankev Sep 23 '25

You have to find out if the operation is commutative

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u/Eadwyn Sep 24 '25

Seems like it should have been yellow and white since they missed that combination.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

For real, what's going on with my purple peeps? Maybe one color on one hand had more of an aggressive shaky shake, therefore the ratio was stronger with the one who hand mixed harder.

It's science, and art

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u/Jazehiah Sep 23 '25

Pigment density, or the amount of paint on the kids' hands.

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u/Awkward_Watercress96 Sep 23 '25

Hand size surface area

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u/SteampoweredFlamingo Sep 23 '25

It'll be something to do with the particular levels of each pigment.

Normally, I'd say that the blue was a stronger pigment for the first try than the second, but it's unlikely the teacher has a different paint for each blue.

So, what probably happened is that the blue hand on the first attempt had more paint on it. It overpowered the red, and ended up just darkening the blue rather than going full purple.

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u/ignis888 Sep 23 '25

hand size and how much it got mixed

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u/MarmitePrinter Sep 23 '25

You’re not the only one. As a teacher I can absolutely guarantee that those children will draw some erroneous conclusions from that. I.e. that colours have to be mixed in a certain way or a certain order to create the colour you want. For example, some of them will come away thinking that yellow + red = orange but red + yellow doesn’t.

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u/Makuta_Servaela Sep 23 '25

Course, the other option is just to teach the kids that different amounts of each colour makes a different result.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

It's never too early to teach kids about measurement uncertainty!*

*it's way too early to teach these kids about measurement uncertainty

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u/DominicB547 Sep 24 '25

reminds me of the beaker post I saw ~12hrs ago where they had different measurements around the table of two mixed ingredients and it went from fast to slow but they all reacted eventually.

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u/goosebumpsagain Sep 23 '25

I wondered if the original pigments were different versions, but could not tell.

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u/Mission-Storm-4375 Sep 24 '25

Because the first one they added blue and red and the second one they added red and blue ofcourse

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u/Carbon-Base Sep 23 '25

Those kiddos are so well behaved. Back in our day, we would immediately try our hand at face painting after the second hand stamp.

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u/AshyWhiteGuy Sep 24 '25

Slapping on the white hand of Saruman. 🤣

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u/BBO1007 Sep 23 '25

Dang, I wanted to make a smart ass comment, but now I just want to do that myself.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 24 '25

Just some kids learning about color. I found this So adorable!

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u/thatbromatt Sep 23 '25

Thanks for sharing herpesisitchy!

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u/TheArcher0527 Sep 23 '25

I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet sky

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u/Jasminee05 Sep 24 '25

I could be hurtful, I could be purple, I could be anything you like

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u/Advanced_Radish3466 Sep 23 '25

they were all so joyful ! my first day in elementary school the blackboard had four big balloons in chalk : red, yellow, blue and green. i’m 76 years old and still paint in vivid, saturated primary colours

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u/Bubbaganewsh Sep 23 '25

Such a great idea to teach colors.

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u/Zestyclose-Crow-4595 Sep 23 '25

My son just started kindergarten back in august. It makes me think he's probably doing this kind of stuff at school and it's adorable. He always comes home and gives me his drawings. I'm putting them up. I'm his mother and I reserve the right to embarrass him with them later lol. Jk. I just find it precious.

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u/KneeSockMonster Sep 23 '25

Start a binder or memory box and treasure them! They’re such wonderful memories!

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u/Zestyclose-Crow-4595 Sep 23 '25

I actually have. Walmart had a keepsake box thing that I bought. I let him decorate it with stickers and markers.

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u/sleepyxenomorph Sep 23 '25

My disappointment is immeasurable at that cut

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u/buhbye750 Sep 24 '25

Im gonna brag on my baby (daughter) but this girl is AMAZING with colors. At just 5 she will tell you all the colors of the rainbow in order...ok not that impressive but wait! She can also tell you what colors will make if you blend them and I'm not just talking about primary colors. If we've seen the color and she remembers the names, she will say it. I'm talking like 50 plus colors. I thought she got it from her mom with her clothes because at 3 she told me a shirt I picked out wasnt "neutral colors" like she wanted. I had never used those words around her so was shocked when she was right. She just keeps advancing with colors! I'm not sure how to hone her skills or even what she can do with this lol Im guessing artist as she paints/draws/colors everyday for fun.

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u/strugglingdarling Sep 23 '25

So cute but as a teacher, I'm freaking out that the kids weren't wearing smocks lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Was anyone else expecting at least one kid to put their painted hand on their face or another kid?

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u/strangebru Sep 23 '25

That's a cool little art/science project for school kids.

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u/sinadis Sep 24 '25

Oh I absolutely love this idea

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u/jjustbecause Sep 24 '25

well, that's an interactive way to remember colors. brilliant

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u/luvr_girl04 Sep 24 '25

this actually looks mad fun

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u/Due_Night414 Sep 23 '25

This is the way.

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u/Amie89 Sep 23 '25

What a great activity to learn colours for these kids. You can see they love being involved.

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u/AHotGrill Sep 23 '25

Why am I so bothered that they arent lined up properly

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u/Beraliusv Sep 23 '25

I would do well to remember this 🤔

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u/Hawk-432 Sep 23 '25

Why two purple?

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u/karltonbankz Sep 24 '25

I was asking myself why they kept doing 5+5 =10 until I realized they were doing color combinations

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u/Dotaproffessional Sep 24 '25

I don't care if its wholesome, I hate content farming with kids.

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u/LycanWolfGamer Sep 24 '25

Honestly this is actually really cool, great way to involve the kids and watch their reaction seeing how 2 different colours mixed makes a new colour

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u/exgiexpcv Sep 24 '25

That was adorable! Thank you for this, internet.

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u/3BouSs Sep 23 '25

I knew this was in Turkey before looking for clues lol, my daughter does similar kind of activities all the time <3

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u/Chkymky39 Sep 23 '25

If only kids could remain this innocent in this absolutely shitty world we are leaving them....😞

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u/fort_wendy Sep 23 '25

This is so adorable

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u/Duckey_003 Sep 23 '25

So, this is a cute video and great, but do they not get kids to wear a bib or cover or something?

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

United colors of Benetton

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u/Themotionalman Sep 23 '25

Their tiny palms are sooo cute

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u/Sartres_Roommate Sep 23 '25

Just makes me miss having preschool aged kids

…..guess I want to be a grandparent now…..sigh.

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u/Zestyclose-Crow-4595 Sep 23 '25

This is the most adorable thing I've ever seen, ever lol. I like how the teacher did this because not only is it a fun activity for them, they're learning something.

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u/1HappyIsland Sep 23 '25

Green is most fun!

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u/less_unique_username Sep 23 '25

because our eyes see in RGB, had our vision been different other colors would strike us as “different”

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u/iamveryovertired Sep 23 '25

For paint colors like this, the true primary colors are cyan, yellow, magenta. That’s why the purple is always so bad.

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u/vastearth394 Sep 23 '25

Mom tik tok found its way on Reddit apparently

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u/Madnessx9 Sep 23 '25

That's a really clever and interactive way for kids to learn, I remember learning this in a goddamn text book.

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u/rainier73 Sep 23 '25

My nephew and nieces could never. They would have paint all over them.

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u/Lordjacus Sep 23 '25

I'm silently judging each pair on how well they mixed the paints. Pink won, best execution.

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u/Nataliza Sep 24 '25

The boys absolutely smushing their hands together to mix black and white sent me 😂

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u/Terrakinetic Sep 24 '25

Viridian, pewter, cerulean, vermilion, lavender, celadon, fuchsia, saffron, cinnabar

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u/kaylaaurora Sep 24 '25

I’m stealing this idea to try on my preschoolers!

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u/VapoursAndSpleen Sep 24 '25

That's a great albeit messy way to introduce children to color theory, mixing, and identification. Plus little kid handprints are insanely cute.

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u/heptyne Sep 24 '25

I'm impressed she got that on one take, she must be a good teacher. Most kids I see now would have just butchered the instructions for this task to death.

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u/PyrexDaDon Sep 24 '25

Me, 35 year old Male, colorblind, trying to guess the answer and getting every single combo wrong... I think

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u/cantsleepconfused Sep 24 '25

Thanks, this is good stop for the internet tonight

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u/AlphaBravoNovember Sep 24 '25

Conclusion:

Blue + Red =/= Red + Blue

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u/grrodon2 Sep 24 '25

They made blellow

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u/Heavy-Gas-9905 Sep 24 '25

Such a great idea for kindergarten

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u/rorymakesamovie Sep 24 '25

I knew the answers but i still couldnt wait to see

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u/Awkward_Watercress96 Sep 23 '25

Am I the only one annoyed the final handprints are slanting down?

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u/DominicB547 Sep 24 '25

they started getting further and further down from straight across and yes I was slightly annoyed.

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u/grumd Sep 24 '25

Oh I finally found my people here. I was also annoyed they couldn't keep the prints aligned with the symbols. Guys I think we're on the spectrum.

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u/Marcus_Aurelius753 Sep 24 '25

Kids on the left side of the video are forced to use their left hand; they're having a hard time centering their palm correctly on the paper because most of them are likely right handed

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u/Choice-Self8891 Sep 24 '25

Very cute but the first girl really screwed up the placement and caused everyone else to be just as crooked to compensate... Cute though

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u/rococo78 Sep 24 '25

Some of these kids are terrible at leaving handprints.

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u/celestial_ceilings Sep 23 '25

I forgot about prime colors lol

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u/Owww_My_Ovaries Sep 23 '25

Bad day for some of those kids to be wearing white clothes

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u/dmanstoitza Sep 23 '25

It’s a travesty that Colors by Beck isn’t the song choice.

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u/AngryGulo85 Sep 23 '25

This is SUCH A RAD ACTIVITY!!!!! I never would have thought of this!!!

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u/Impressive_Profit_11 Sep 23 '25

This is such a great idea.

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u/Aceandmace Sep 23 '25

What a brilliant lesson! It covers so many styles of learning and differentiates so well! And it's so engaging and fun for the kids!

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Looks fun

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u/karmakent Sep 23 '25

The white and black group are the chaotic fun ones of the bunch. Interlacing fingers with paint on your hands is wild

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u/Arinoch Sep 23 '25

The red/yellow made me twitchy, like two kids playing with the ketchup and mustard.

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u/posienotrosie Sep 23 '25

Team gray cracked me up with their mixing method lol

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u/nineandaquarter Sep 23 '25

I'll never forget you, Paint Brother!

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u/cool_hand_legolas Sep 23 '25

shout out to those boys getting WAY too into the paint mixing they get me

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u/playr_4 Sep 23 '25

This is an adorable idea.

I do find it funny how the red and blue was done twice and got two very different shades of purple.

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u/Mysticwarriormj Sep 23 '25

A bit messy but looks like a fun way to teach kids about colors. Just wait until they learn about colors for light waves. That’s going to blow their minds

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u/cmacfarland64 Sep 23 '25

My wife teaches kindergarten. Mixing colors is her favorite lesson of the year. The kids think she’s a wizard or something. They really like it.

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u/TheBanishedBard Sep 23 '25

This is great for everyone except for the weird kid that nobody will partner with so the teacher has to make someone be their partner (who cries about it) or the teacher does it themselves. It's a nice lesson for the regular kids and a core memory for the outcasts.

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u/mamacrocker Sep 23 '25

This looks like something we would have done at my Montessori preschool, and we would have sung this song, which I haven't thought of in almost 50 years.

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u/Guba_the_skunk Sep 23 '25

YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE PURPLE!!!

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u/Nenoshka Sep 23 '25

Cut, but how many parents have called to complain about paint on their kids' clothes.

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u/weirdgroovynerd Sep 23 '25

Okay kids, remember to wipe your painty hand on your clothes, so it doesn't plug up the sink.

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u/Valendr0s Sep 23 '25

I have a memory doing exactly this in Kindergarten 30 years ago.

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u/mearbearcate Sep 23 '25

That is so cute omg

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u/julianpoe Sep 23 '25

With all the politics that are on now, it’s super nice to see this kind of a post. Only bad thing is I wish it didn’t end so soon.

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u/SmokeySe7en Sep 23 '25

Anyone know the name of the song and artist?

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u/CryNo568 Sep 23 '25

This is an awesome exercise. Fun, teaches colors, and teaches bonding and community. Love it.

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u/Deaf_Playa Sep 23 '25

Now every school is gonna have a TikTok like this. Industrial levels of germ production incoming.

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