What are colors?

Colors are what make things look different, like how your favorite crayon looks compared to another one.

Imagine you have a box of crayons. Each one has its own color, like red, blue, or yellow. When you draw with them on paper, the paper shows that color because light bounces off it and reaches your eyes.

Your eyes are like little detectives, they catch the light coming from things around you. If something is red, it means most of the light bouncing off it is red. If it’s blue, then mostly blue light comes to you. Your brain takes all that information and tells you, “Hey, that looks like a color!”

Sometimes, when you mix colors together, like painting with watercolors, new colors appear. It's just like mixing juice, red juice and yellow juice can make orange juice! Colors are what make things look different, like how your favorite crayon looks compared to another one.