Character associations

DESCRIBING COLOURS:
Colour characters

What types of words do you associate with each colour character?


Details:

  • All ages

  • Time: 15 minutes

  • Learning Outcome: Associate ideas, concepts, emotions with colour characters

  • Colour Concept: Discover that we often associate colour characters with our life experiences that are accentuated (or enhanced) by other more descriptive attributes of colour than just hue. This can happen naturally without us even thinking about it.

Materials:

Template for character association exercise

Instructions:

  • On the handout, in each character’s zone, write down any associated words you can think of for that colour character. The words can be ideas, concepts, emotions, foods, seasons - anything you can thing of. Write down as many associative words as you can.

  • Example: Pale: pastels, soft, Easter

  • Share your list with your classmates.

Vocabulary:

Questions and observations:

  • What sorts of similarities do you find for words associated with each character, compared to your classmates? What sorts off differences do you find?

  • Which character is associated with the most positive words (e.g. happy, peaceful, etc.)?

  • Which character is associated with the most negative words(e.g. sad, angry, etc.)?

What’s going on here?

Find out more:

PAD Theory and the Divers Colorsets
Divers Color Compass