Colors

Black is the colour of the night sky or the deepest, darkest shadow. The swan in the picture is black.

Blue is the colour of the sky on a clear day. It is a primary colour, which means blue paint can be used to make other colours but you can't use any other colours to make blue paint. The cat in the picture has blue eyes.

Many animals are brown, and dirt is brown. The colour brown can be made by mixing a few other colours of paint together without thinking, you'll usually get brown this way! The horse in the picture is brown.

Caramel is a word for a mid-brown colour as well as a food. Caramel is made by heating sugar until it melts and changes colour. Caramel has a disctinctive flavour and is used in a lot of desserts like puddings and cakes, and is also used in lots of sweets and candies.

Cream is a fatty part of milk that floats to the top of fresh milk. Cream is thick and white or slightly yellow and is delicious on fruit, hot drinks, pancakes and many desserts.

Cream is also the name for a yellowish-white color.

Cyan is a bright, blue-green colour. Cyan is also called aqua.

Gold is a heavy, soft, yellow metal that is easy to work with. It is the softest metal, and is very dense, much denser than lead.

Gold is very stable and is used to coat other more reactive metals to protect them, but its primary use is in jewelry. Pure gold is too soft to make jewellery out of, and is usually mixed with silver, copper and other metals.

Green is the colour of the leaves on most plants. The colour green can be made by mixing blue
and yellow paint. The frog in the picture is green.

Grey (also spelt gray) is the colour of weathered rocks and concrete paths. The colour grey can be made by mixing black and white paint. The cat in the picture is grey.

Indigo is a purple-blue color that was originally made from the indigo plant.

Many types of jeans are dyed indigo.