Lakresha Gray Diaz

The Story of How Color Came to Be Lakresha Gray Diaz

Yellow, Blue, and Red happily live apart in the world of the painter's palette. One day, Yellow runs out of things to paint and ventures into the unknown where she meets Blue. Scared of their differences they argue and throw their colors at each other. Their fighting creates the new color, Green. He is saddened at their destructive behavior. Yellow and Blue quickly recognize that their world is much better with three colors and begin painting the world around them in their likeness. What will happen when Yellow, Blue, and Green's travels lead to Red? The Story of How Colors Came To Be was created by an art teacher to instruct color theory to preschool and primary children in a fun and memorable way. The text uses the following color theory vocabulary: primary, secondary, and tertiary. It presents the elementary level color theory curriculum. The last page of the story is a color wheel with our book characters. It is the perfect book to teach kids about color theory, friendship, and unity.