Ideas for Principle #32

💡 Watercolors - mix yellow and blue and you get green - colors change when you combine them.

A bracelet or ring that changes color in the sun - out in the sun it turns more colorful, and back in the shade the color fades again.

A baby-food temperature spoon - changes color if the baby's food is too hot, so we know to wait before feeding.

A forehead thermometer strip - changes color to show us if there's a fever, without needing a regular thermometer.

Hard to tell if something is safe or ready just by looking?!
Sometimes you can't tell by eye if water is too hot or something is dangerous.

Worth thinking about: can we make an object change color to "tell" us something important, without words?

Changing color is a simple, clear way to get information in a single glance, without needing to measure or ask.

Ready for a challenge? We've prepared some extra challenges for you to try

Now it's your turn to invent. Design your own color code for tidying the room or for moods, and explain what each color means.

Easy
1. Find one more object in the house together that changes color and tells us something, and check how it works.
2. Ask your child what color they would choose today to describe their mood.

A bit of a stretch
3. Choose together to color-code the savings jar green, yellow, and red depending on how much money is in it.
4. Check together whether it's easier to understand a colorful picture of expenses than a list of numbers.

Challenge for champions
5. Ask your child to design a bracelet or card that changes color based on a habit or task they want to track.
6. Try together to think of a place in the house where a color code could help keep it more organized.