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How Does Color Affect Your Child’s Mood?

October 3, 2014 by Rebecca Eisenberg, MS, CCC-SLP Leave a Comment

Happy smiley hands against green spring background

How do you think color affects your mood or your child’s mood? I was always interested in learning how different colors within your environment can affect your mood and perspective. Once I started researching this particular topic, I began to think about how colors in picture books affect a child’s mood or perspective of the story they are reading.

How do you feel when reading a picture book with dark colors? How about a brighter more engaging one?

As a child and now as an adult, I am always attracted by bright and vibrant colors within a picture book. It captivates my attention and makes me feel happy. I wanted to review the basic color theory by Kandinsky and discuss how different colors can represent a particular feeling or mood. Wassily Kandinsky was a famous Russian painter and art theorist who developed the Color Theory in 1911.

Yellow – warm, exciting, happy
Green – peace, stillness, nature
Blue – peaceful, supernatural, deep
Red – restless, glowing, alive, confidence
Orange – radiant, serious, healthy, mix of red and yellow
Black – extinguished, grief, dark
White – harmony, silence, cleanliness

So what does the color theory have to do with The Monkey Balloon? I think a lot! When creating the story for The Monkey Balloon, Mindy, Yuki, and I wanted to use bright and colorful illustrations that would captivate a child’s attention without being over-stimulating. We wanted a book that uplifted a child’s spirits and sparked their imagination. Can color do this? I think so! With a combination of color and writing, a story with the right combination of colors can become a beautiful journey for a child. The Monkey Balloon has many colors, but its most prominent colors are blue, green, yellow and red which can help a child exhibit feelings of warmness, nature and being alive. The contrast of the silhouette of Mimi and Papi makes the colors even more vibrant. Why did we make Mimi a silhouette? Find out in our next blog post!

Filed Under: For Educators, For Parents, Language and Learning Tips

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About Rebecca Eisenberg, MS, CCC-SLP

Rebecca Eisenberg, MS, CCC-SLP is a certified speech language pathologist, author, instructor and parent of two young children. She has multiple games and a workbook published by Super Duper Publications. She has enjoyed working with children ages 2 and up with multiple disabilities in a variety of settings for the past fourteen years. Rebecca has always loved and treasured children’s books. Her favorite books growing up included Curious George, Corduroy, The Giving Tree and The Frog and Toad Collection. She is passionate about using children’s books to facilitate language and teach children valuable lessons. Rebecca began her blog www.gravitybread.com to create a resource for parents to help make mealtime an enriched learning experience.

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