What is colour?

Colour is what makes things look different under our eyes, like how a red apple looks very different from a green one.

Imagine you have a box of crayons. Each crayon has its own colour, some are bright, like yellow, and others are calm, like blue. When you draw with them on paper, the paper shows that colour, just like how a real apple shows red or green.

Your eyes have special little helpers called cells in them, kind of like tiny detectives. These detectives look for different kinds of light. When they see light from something, they tell your brain what colour it is. It's like having a detective team that says, “This apple looks red!” or “That sky looks blue!”

Sometimes things can change their colour, just like how a banana turns from yellow to brown when it gets old. That’s because the light inside it changes, and your brain notices! Colour is what makes things look different under our eyes, like how a red apple looks very different from a green one.

Imagine you have a box of crayons. Each crayon has its own colour, some are bright, like yellow, and others are calm, like blue. When you draw with them on paper, the paper shows that colour, just like how a real apple shows red or green.

Your eyes have special little helpers called cells in them, kind of like tiny detectives. These detectives look for different kinds of light. When they see light from something, they tell your brain what colour it is. It's like having a detective team that says, “This apple looks red!” or “That sky looks blue!”

Sometimes things can change their colour, just like how a banana turns from yellow to brown when it gets old. That’s because the light inside it changes, and your brain notices!