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This is probably more evidence that I have too much time on my hands, but a few years ago, when my oldest kid graduated from chunky crayons to the 64-color box her awesome aunt sent her, I spent as much time with her looking at the names of the crayons as I did actually coloring with them. Some of my favorites were still there — magenta, violet, yellow-orange — and some were missing, like lemon yellow and raw umber. Some colors looked familiar but had new names. This was the 2008 anniversary box, so ones I’d grown up knowing as, say, flourescent pink were called things like “famous.”
As it turns out, that box of crayons we loved as children has evolved. And there are people who have studied this. Continue reading »
As I alluded to the other day, prior to the 1940s the color pink was considered a color for boys, not girls. Somehow, that perception flip-flopped so that now pink is seen exclusively as feminine. We see it in toy stores, in clothing choices, even in the ribbons we wear to ward off breast cancer. Quite simply, in today’s society, pink is for girls. So what do you do if your daughter was born first?
It’s literally blobs of color scattered across pages, and yet Leo Lionni’s Little Blue and Little Yellow is still being taught in classrooms fifty years on.
It’s an introduction to color mixing – both literal and figurative. Continue reading »
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