What color is childhood?

Childhood is yellow because…

• “Yellow is happy, bright, and playful. It’s like a smiling sun.”
• “Sunlight and peace and dreaminess.”
• “Happiness and brightness and no worries.”
• “Yellow is like the sun: beautiful and wonderful, but also annoying, and sometimes we wish it would leave.”
• “Bright, fun, and playful. ”
• “You were always happy…”
• “Yellow is bubbly and fun like children.”
• “Yellow is happy, just like childhood.”
• “Childhood was always sunny and happy for me. As the saying goes: ‘The past always seems better’.”
• “Sunny days.”
• “Sunshine and happiness.”
• “Yellow is joyful and bright—just like childhood.”
• “Yellow is joyful and bright—just like childhood.”
• “It’s a very vibrant memory.”
• “I just remember yellow, its a primary color, the color of the sun, the color of joy.”
• “Everything was bright, and apparently our eyes lose the ability to see color as we age, so truly, everything is brighter when we’re kids.”
• “Because yellow represents happiness and that’s where I left all of mine.”
• “Because I was always out in the sun.”
• “It seems bright looking back, like a warm summer day. So I think yellow suits it best.”

Childhood is blue because…

• “Blue is nostalgic. It’s everywhere.”
• “I remember looking up at the sky after playing as a kid.”
• “Childhood is the rainbow, but I chose blue because it is a color of nostalgia and innocence.”

Childhood is pink because…

• “Pink was the main color of my childhood wardrobe. ”
• “Childhood is pink because it’s very light and happy and appears to have no worries.”
• “Because my childhood room was pink. ”
• “Pink candy!”
• “Pink is carefree and happy like childhood.”

Childhood is green because…

• “Like grass.”
• “Bright green grass everywhere when we were kids!”
• “You pay more attention to nature in childhood: you play in grass, climb trees, etc.”
• “The grass always seems much greener in childhood memories.”
• “Young life and all that.”
• “I was outside all the time. ”

Childhood is orange because…

• “Orange is the sepia flashback color.”
• “My childhood was colorful, happy, and probably on the whole a rainbow, but orange sticks out the most.”
• “A playful orange. Also I think orange is the most nostalgic color.”
• “Flashbacks have an orange tint to them.”
• “Orange like the sun. An orange that my mom peels for me. Orange juice at four. And that redhead boy I spent my time with.”

Childhood is purple because…

• “It’s a beautiful colour.”
• “That was the color of my childhood bedroom.”
• “That was the color of my childhood carpet, and I always wanted to paint my walls purple as well.”

Childhood is red because…

• “Childhood is red because I feel the anxiety that I felt growing up, and THAT felt red. ”
• “Red is the beginning of the rainbow, and childhood is the beginning of living life.”
• “A lot of those toys for really little kids are red. I think of those puzzle toys for little children as associated with childhood.”

Childhood is black because…

• “Depressing and traumatic.”
• “Because it was a dark and depressing time.”

Childhood is white because…

• “It’s white because it’s full of possibility, and the color will come with experience.”

Childhood is grey because…

• “It feels like a grey area, if that makes any sense.”