Color and Children Emotions

August 20, 2010 | Posted by HomeZooka.com

The following home trend post, have a title ‘Color and Children Emotions‘. Color and children are the two elements are inseparable. Of infants, children already know the color. Evidently, they are more like primary-colored toys such as red, blue and yellow rather than a pastel. Some psychologists, such as Hemphill in 1996, Lang in 1993, and Mahnke in 1996, has conducted research on color and its relation to children emotions. The result, they admitted that there was a correlation between the colors with children emotions, although there are some things that are still in doubt. Doubt they are based on different human cultures on a color. In America for example, red is considered uplifting or aggressiveness. While in China, red symbolizes celebration and luck, and calming effect. However, there are effects that occur universally throughout the world due to the use of color.

Color & Interior
According a famous interior designer, color is a compound of the interior. Fairly close relation with children’s emotions. Therefore, be careful in choosing colors for a child, especially in spaces which are often occupied by children, such as bedrooms, bathroom, playroom and study room. Other spaces such as living room, dining room and family room was not big enough impact on children. More colors recommended are bright colors that can be optimized to stimulate creativity, encouraging, influencing the aesthetic sense, strengthening the power of imagination, and strengthen the motor stimulus. In addition, children also have a positive reaction to bright colors, like pink, blue, or red. Any negative reaction will be given on dark colors like brown, black, and gray.

Universal Stock Colors
Red: a dynamic, vibrant, stimulating, active, strong, warm, aggressive. If too much, this color can lead to anger, stress, impatience, intimidation, revenge, and the atmosphere was noisy. Instead, should not be used for baby’s room (under 1 year).

• Yellow: Color is hard to arrest the eyes, cheerful, warm and energetic. These colors are not suitable for use in the child’s bedroom, especially for the yellow is too bright, because it can cause glare and hard to break.
• Blue: the color is most comfortable for the eyes, soothing, safe, accepting, patient. Too much blue can cause chills and makes children become passive. If you want to use the blue color, choose a pale color is not too cold so not impressed.
• Green: relaxed, quiet, natural, calming and shyly impressed. Too much green, will make the children become lazy, so as to neutralize can be combined with red or orange.
• Orange: confident, friendly, full of joy. Orange color in the room can make the child is always awake, so it must be combined with any other color. If too much orange, can make the room was dark, so it takes a lot of incoming light.
• Purple: can increase a child’s imagination and creativity. But too much purple can also create a mood of troubled children and cause children too want power.
• Lilac: spiritual impressed. Do not use the lilac in the boys room because it can evoke femininity. So as not to seem trite, match with black or silver.

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