Color My

World!
Click & the Kids story and art by Betsy Page Brown

Click
Martin Liz
Amy (the sitter) paint colors

I can't decide what color to Gosh! I didn't know there were

paint my bathroom. Should I pick so many different colors.
lavender mist, seafoam green, or How do they make them all?
hmm . . . maybe mellow yellow?

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 By mixing–just like you and Amy make new
colors when you mix yellow, red, and blue paint.
Or when you add white or black to make the
colors lighter or darker.
Hey, maybe we can
mix the perfect color
for your bathroom.

I make pink all the time. You I learned how to mix my

just mix white and red. See? favorite color by eating hot
Perfect poodle puff pink! dogs. When you mix ketchup
with mustard, you get . . .

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 Stains on your shirt?
It's good for painting
No. Orange! fireballs and pumpkins.

Liz always says she likes the color But I think she
of my purple party dress. I can make likes green better.
that color by mixing red and blue. She loves plants
and growing things.

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Yellow and blue make green, but And now I'll add
I want light green for this grass. a little black to
I need to add some white. make dark green
for the leaves.

There's pancake batter yellow,

Welcome to our pumpkin fireball orange, party
paint store, Liz. We dress purple, and more.
have lots of colors
to choose from.

Wow! They're all so

lovely. I wish I could
choose them all.
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 No problem, Liz! We'll just Then you can paint
mix all the colors together! your bathroom a
lovely shade of . . .

Don't worry, Liz. You

can always change your
mind and paint it plain
old white.
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Our Colorful World
What colors do you see in this picture?

Look at the picture under a strong light. Do

the colors appear brighter? Look at the picture in
a dark room. You can probably still see the sizes
and shapes of things, and even that some things
are darker or lighter than others. But the colors
are harder to see. We need light to see color.
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 If we couldn’t see colors, our lives would
be very different.

How would we know

when berries are sweet
and ready to eat?

How would we know

which drink to choose?

How would we
know which team
has the ball?
Kick it to me.
I'm open.

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 Could you
tell one of
these popsicles
from another
if they weren’t
different
colors?

What about these

candies?

Some colors blend in together

and can make things hard to
see. Some colors stand out and
catch your attention, even from
far away. Why do you think
traffic signs and warning lights
are usually red or yellow?
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 Colors can even change our feelings or moods.
Yellow might make you think of the sun and
other warm, bright things. Blue might remind
you of water, so you feel cool and refreshed. Red
is the color of fire and danger. Does it make you
feel hot or a little excited? Green can remind you
of leafy trees and cool shade. Does it make you
feel rested and relaxed?

What’s your favorite color?

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 Animals growl and
squeak, roar and tweet,
but did you know that
their colors talk too?

Shh,
Some colors whisper. I’m
hiding.

Many animals are brown or

green. Their color helps them
blend in with the ground or
grass and leaves. Enemies
have a hard time spotting
the sloth in this tree.

Brightly colored animals can

hide too. Do you see the pink
mantis hiding on this pink
flower? Bugs don’t—until the
mantis grabs and eats them!

Can you see

me?

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 Some colors call out. Hi,
A male frigate bird gets the attention
look
of female birds by blowing up a
bright red pouch on his throat like
at me.
a balloon. If a female likes
his pouch, she’ll choose
the male as her mate.

A male blue-footed booby shows off his feet

to attract a mate. The blue tells females that
he is healthy and will make a good dad. The
brighter the blue, the better!

The bright color of

these yellow tangs acts
like a flashing sign that
says, “Hey, come on over
and get cleaned.” This sea
turtle got the message and
will let the little tangs eat the
algae growing on its shell.

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 And some colors shout! Stay
away!
Poison dart frogs come in all sorts
of bold, beautiful colors. Unlike
most frogs, they want to be seen,
because their colors tell enemies
that their skin is poisonous.

Watch out! The bright red markings

on this black widow spider warn
that its bite is dangerous!

Chameleons can change

color—not to match their
backgrounds, like in the
movies, but to show they
are mad. Their colors get
brighter to warn other
animals to back off.

Look around. What do the colors

of the animals near you say?
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 Seeing Colors The color of your
eyes doesn’t affect
the colors you see.
It’s what’s inside that
counts!

Our eyes have two kinds of tiny sensors

hidden inside. Called rods and cones, these
sensors help us see every time we open our eyes.
Rods work even when there isn’t much light.
They help us see shapes and movements
in the dark. Cones work only in bright
light. They help us see colors.

Can you spot the number 36 in this

picture? Most people can, but some have
trouble telling red and green colors apart.
For them, the picture just shows a jumble
of muddy green dots.

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 Most people have three types of
cones, which work together to let us
see all the colors of the rainbow. But
some people and many animals,
including cats and dogs, have only two
types of cones. They see fewer colors.
Colors most people see Colors a dog sees

Some birds, fish, and other animals

have four—or more!—types of cones. I wonder what
color a bird
thinks I am?
Scientists think that these animals may
see a range of colors where people see
only a single color. We don’t really
know what colors a bird sees.

Maybe instead of seeing this, it sees this!

We can only
imagine the colors
a bird sees.
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 Yo Wants to Know
by Lea and Alan Daniel

“Every night, when you turn

off my light, the colors go
away,” says Yo. “Look! My
red train is black and my
green ball is gray.”

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“When there isn’t much light,” says
Mom, “the parts inside our eyes that
help us see colors stop working.”

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 “But if I turn up the light a little
with the dimmer switch . . .”
“Ha!” says Yo. “Now there’s
red in my train and green in
my ball.”

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“When I turn the light all the
way up, everything will be
bright and colorful,” says Mom.
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 “Unless I hide under the covers,”
says Yo, “then everything is black,
black, black.”
“When there’s no light, we can’t
even see the shapes of things,”
agrees Mom.

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“So it’s important to leave the hall
light on and the door open a crack,”
says Yo.
“I will,” says Mom. “Sleep tight, Yo.”

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COLOR IN ART by John Grandits

Color is everywhere. And color is one of the most

important and fun parts of making art.

WARM, HAPPY COLORS

Sometimes colors make you feel warm
and happy. The colors in this painting
make bright and shady areas, just like on
a beautiful sunny day. Doesn’t it make
you want to run out and play?

The Old Guitarist, 1903–04, Pablo Picasso/©2006 Estate of Pablo Picasso/

Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
QUIET, SAD COLORS
For many years this artist painted
pictures that were mostly blue.
All the shades of blue give you
an idea about how the old
guitarist feels. Maybe they tell you
something about how the artist
felt too.
The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil, 1881, Claude Monet.
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 This artist used colors to make a painting that looks
REAL almost as real as a photograph. You can see the ripe red
COLOR strawberries through the clear glass jar. The orange skin
looks bumpy, and the nuts are all different browns, just
like the ones you might eat at your house.

Still Life - Strawberries, Nuts, &c., 1822, Raphaelle Peale.

MAKE-BELIEVE
COLOR
Cows aren‘t bright yellow!
Or green. Or red with
green spots. But the artist
painted these cows just the
way he imagined them.
We can tell the yellow cow
is happy. She‘s jumping
and mooing and maybe
even celebrating. That‘s
an artist with a good
imagination.
Cows, Red, Green, Yellow, 1912, Franz Marc.
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 LOTS OF COLORS
When you look at this painting from far away

(detail of sailboat), Georges Seurat.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884
it looks as if there are big areas of plain, solid
colors. But when you get closer you can see
thousands of little dots of color—reds and
yellows and blues and greens. The artist is
telling us that the world is complicated—it
takes a lot of colors to show what life is like.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884, Georges Seurat.

In all these pictures, colors explain what the artist is trying

to tell us: the mood, the feeling, the dream, the reality.

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 Milk is An
yellow orange is
white

What
A carrot
is green Color
Is It?
A magpie
is pink

A
butterfly
is green
I’m
confused.

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 Milk is when it gets made
yellow into cheese.

A carrot
is green
when you see it growing
in a garden.

Now that
makes more
sense.

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 An
orange is when its flower has not yet
white grown into a fruit.

A
butterfly
is green

A magpie
is pink

when it first hatches from its egg.

when it’s a caterpillar.

It all depends on when

and how you look.
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 Green Eggs and Sam
by Charnan Simon art by Paul Meisel

Sam took out his favorite watercolor

paints and announced, “I’m confused.”
He pointed, “Red, blue, yellow—three
primary colors. You can’t make them
by mixing other colors. But you can use
them to make new colors. That’s what you
always said.” Sam dipped his paintbrush
in the water. “Red and blue mix to make
purple. Blue and yellow mix to make
green. Yellow and red mix to make
orange. And if I mix red and blue and
yellow all together, I get yucky blackish.”
Mom sat down across from Sam.
“Nothing confusing so far, Sam. You’ve
painted a bunch of purple grapes with
green leaves in a big orange bowl on a
yucky blackish table. Those grapes look
good enough to eat! What’s the problem?”
Sam scowled. “The problem is that
when I was helping Ms. Jeffers do the
lights for our school play, she said the
primary colors are red, blue, and GREEN.
When she mixed red lights and green
lights she got a YELLOW spotlight. And
when she mixed the red and blue and
green lights together on the stage, it made
everything bright WHITE.” Sam crumpled
his painty paper. “And that’s confusing!”
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 “Ahhhh,” said Mom. “I see your point.”
She tapped her finger on the table. “Before
we talk about primary colors, we need to talk
about light. Did you know that white light
isn’t really white? It’s a mixture of all the
colors of the rainbow—red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, and purple. Here—grab a clean
sheet of paper, and I’ll show you.”
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 Sam followed Mom as she took a crystal
wineglass from the china cabinet and went out
on the deck. “OK, Sam. Put the paper down,
and hold the glass out over it so the sunlight
shines through the glass onto the paper. Now
turn the glass a little—try the other way—
there! See the rainbow on the paper?”
Sam twisted the glass back and forth,
and sure enough, a little rainbow showed
up on the white paper.
“That rainbow is caused by light
bending as it goes through the crystal.
Each color in the white light bends
a slightly different amount in the
crystal, so when the light leaves the
crystal the colors are separated.
The crystal splits the light from
the sun into the colors of the
rainbow—but the colors were
part of the light all along.”

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 Mom put the paper and the glass away
and had another idea. “Turn on the hose,
Sam,” she said. She fiddled with the nozzle
until a fine spray came out. “Now stand with
your back to the sun, and point the hose up
in the air. See the rainbow in the spray?”
Sam did. “Cool!” he said. He sprayed the
hose up and down, back and forth, while the
rainbow danced in the shower.
“This time the rainbow is caused by sunlight
bending as it passes through the drops of water,”
said Mom. “Just like the crystal, the drops
separate the white sunlight into a band of colors.”
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 Mom and Sam went back inside.
“When Ms. Jeffers shone her red and
blue and green lights on the stage,
she was doing the opposite of what
we just did,” Mom explained. “We
split the white sunlight into different
colors. Ms. Jeffers put those different
colors back together to make white.”
Mom tousled Sam’s hair. “Are you
still with me? When you’re working
with light beams, the primary colors
are red, green, and blue. That’s why
Ms. Jeffers could mix red and green
lights to make yellow. And it’s why
she could mix all the colored lights
together to make white light.”
“So when you’re mixing
paint,” said Sam, “the primary
colors are red, blue, and yellow.
But when you’re mixing light,
they’re red, blue, and green.”
“Right,” said Mom. “And just like with paint,
you can mix the three primary colors of light to
make millions of new colors. That’s how all the
colors are produced on a computer or TV screen.”

Sam doodled with his paints. “Ms. Jeffers’s

green light is a primary color. But my green
paint is blue and yellow mixed together.” He
thought a minute. “What about my green
marker? What kind of green is that?”
Mom grinned. “Oooooh—I was hoping you’d
ask! I have such a good way to answer you!”
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 Mom took a paper coffee filter
from the cupboard and some
scissors and the stapler. “You get
a juice glass, Sam, and a pencil.
And your green marker!”
Mom cut a narrow strip from
the coffee filter. She folded one
end over, then stapled it to
make a loop. “OK, Sam,” she
instructed. “Make a green dot
here, near the bottom of the strip.
Now poke the pencil through the
loop, and hang the pencil over
the glass, so the strip dangles
down in it.”
Mom carefully poured some
water into the glass, until it just
barely touched the bottom of the
paper but didn’t reach the green
dot. “Now we watch,” she said.

“What are we watching for?”

Sam asked.
“Wait and see,” Mom said,
looking mysterious.
So Sam waited. First just the
bottom of the filter strip was
wet. Then the water started
creeping up the paper, until it
reached the dot of green marker.
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 “It’s spreading out!”
Sam said. “My green dot’s
all smeary! It’s not green
anymore!”
Sure enough, the little
green dot was turning
into a watery, washy
smear of color—blue
at the top, yellow at
the bottom. There was
still some green showing,
but mostly it was yellow and blue.
“Ha!” said Sam triumphantly.
“You’re not really green! You’re blue
and yellow! Wait till I tell Ms. Jeffers!”

Then Sam had an

idea. “Hey, Mom,” he
said. “What happens
if we mix blue food
coloring with yellow egg
yolks? Will we get green
scrambled eggs?”
“Only one way to
find out,” Mom said
happily. “Get the food
coloring, Green Eggs
and Sam!”
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Color Bingo art by Karen Craig

Here’s a fun way to look for colors around you. You can
play by yourself or with your friends. When you see one
of the items shown on your card, use a bean or button or
pencil to mark the square. The winner is the first person to
mark all the items in a row—across, down, or diagonally.
Or you can try to cover the whole card.

RED YELLOW BLUE GREEN ORANGE

leaf paper bowl pea orange

strawberry banana curtains grass butterfly

Free
Space
tomato ruler leaf carrot

car pencil block bottle cat

cup lemon button truck goldfish

 CLICK TAKEOUT PAGES Please remove carefully at fold.
RED YELLOW BLUE GREEN ORANGE

CLICK TAKEOUT PAGES Please remove carefully at fold.

ribbon ducky shovel paint shirt

balloon flower blueberry light juice

Free
Space

CLICK TAKEOUT PAGES Please remove carefully at fold.

sign leaf money crayon

candy bee pants grape circle

sock hat towel marker book

RED YELLOW BLUE GREEN ORANGE

marker jacket shirt apple basketball

leaf bus pen triangle carrot

Free
Space
heart bee pea goldfish

car lemon square leaf book

candy hat ball paint crayon

 RED YELLOW BLUE GREEN ORANGE

strawberry bus bowl grass butterfly

cup banana block bottle pumpkin

Free
Space
sock ducky apple juice

ribbon pencil blueberry money circle

heart flower towel triangle cat

 The World’s Most
Colorful Bear
By John Grandits
November/December 2024 Volume 27 Number 9 [Link] $6.95 Illustrated by Brian Floca

I’m a photographer I love these houses.

so color is very important They’re painted wild
to me. I like to see all the and exciting colors.
colors of the rainbow.

Check out these bird I like color sooooo

houses. I’ll bet the much that sometimes
birdies know which I wear my special
house to come home to. rainbow outfit.

Ah. Home,
pink home!