| This time I am presenting in front of you all the relation | | | | positive action. |
| of colour with child psychology. | | | | Colour is the great mean to manipulate children and |
| I hope that this article would be appreciated by every | | | | teenagers. This mean is used differently and it brings |
| reader. | | | | different results. Not only sellers and manufacturers |
| Colour is the bright site of childhood. Children love all | | | | use children's interest towards colours. You also can |
| types of colours and give an instant respond on it. | | | | use it to teach, motivate and inspire new generation. |
| However children's response differs from adults' | | | | Colour language and children |
| reaction. If you are to communicate with children, colour | | | | First let's consider how children get acquainted with |
| should become your ally. But you need to use the | | | | colours. They learn to distinguish them long before they |
| colour language correctly. Children use limited palette, | | | | know the names of colours. The point out right objects, |
| which becomes wider as they grow up. | | | | before they are able to say 'red', 'yellow' or 'green'. |
| Colour is the first characteristic, which children can | | | | Children learn colours' names at the age of 2-5. Girls |
| distinguish. All of us have heard that children perceive | | | | usually memorize colours names earlier than boys. Of |
| only black and white colours (light and darkness). | | | | course, all children develop differently, as the process |
| Young parents often paint nursery black-and-white, | | | | of growing up is connected with the state of nervous |
| buy black-and-white toys and other stuff. But in the | | | | system. |
| period from six weeks to two months the situation | | | | If you want to help children learn to distinguish colours, |
| undergoes radical changes. First children start to | | | | try to do so that children learn colours associating |
| distinguish red colour. Later they start to perceive other | | | | them with the subjects of corresponding colour. Here |
| bright colours, and yellow among them. | | | | are typical associations, understandable for an |
| Little children are attracted to bright colours. Numerous | | | | average child |
| academic researches show that age children's | | | | Yellow - bananas, lemons, sun |
| preferences change. Many children under 10 call red | | | | Red - apples, tomatoes |
| (or pink) and yellow their favourite colours. But having | | | | Blue - jeans, sky |
| grown above ten they start preferring blue. We | | | | Green - peas, grass, leaves |
| consider it to be with the process of growing up and | | | | Grey - an elephant |
| appearance of ability to perceive different hues of | | | | Brown - a bear, tree bark |
| mood. | | | | Researches show, that, for example when you show |
| Colour preferences are closely connected with the | | | | a blue apple to a child and ask him what it is, it takes |
| gender. Numerous researches show that most little | | | | him or her more time to recognize it. Sure if you |
| girls prefer pink, lavender or violet. Little boys like black | | | | happen to communicate with little children, you know |
| and other dark colours more than girls. The question | | | | what may happen. A blue apple may seem funny to |
| has arisen if those preferences are innate or acquired. | | | | them. It testifies that a child develops the sense of |
| Adults accustom little girls and boys to like certain | | | | humour, ability to laugh at clumsy and wrong things. |
| colours choosing their clothes and toys. It's hard to give | | | | Once a child learnt to recognize and name colours, it |
| the exact answer but we are inclined to consider | | | | helps him or her to learn new information. Parents |
| colour preferences to be innate. It's a difficult problem | | | | always want to teach children safety regulations. We |
| to be solved in future. | | | | discovered that emphasizing certain qualities by means |
| Do toys manufacturers know about it? Walk about | | | | of colour helps children to remember what is |
| toy department - you'll see that they are quite well | | | | dangerous. Remember that human's eye notices |
| aware of children's' colour preferences and use the | | | | combination of yellow and black, and brain |
| colour to attract children's attention and sell their | | | | automatically perceives this as a sign of danger. Use |
| products, as company working for adults, they use the | | | | these colours to mark the things, which you don't want |
| same strategies - colour characteristics of the trade | | | | your children to play with. You may also mark those |
| mark, emphasizing certain features with the help of | | | | rooms in your house, in which your children mustn't go, |
| colours. | | | | which are dangerous - like stairs or cellar. When your |
| Speaking about emphasizing certain characteristics by | | | | children grow, you still can use colours for teaching |
| means of colours, gender identification is only one | | | | them. Certain researches showed that children with |
| example. If you see some product in bright colourful | | | | attention problems cope with the task better when |
| packaging then the manufacturer wants to affect | | | | stimulated with colours. Improvement was as significant |
| children and means them to be the target audience. | | | | as when using drugs. It means the colour can be used |
| Some parents think that manufacturers too cynically | | | | in medicine. |
| play on children's feelings. But remember, how many | | | | Colour can also be used in food if your child doesn't |
| times colour has motivated children to take some | | | | like to eat same boring dull food. |