Colour Words Mixing Lab

The friends set up a paint lab in the barn. There were three pots: red, yellow and blue.

Paris the cow wrote labels on them. "Rouge, jaune, bleu. That's French!"

"What happens if we mix two?" asked Little Thunder.

Suzy poured red into yellow and stirred. "Orange!"

"Naranja," said Madrid the cow. "That's orange in Spanish."

Spike mixed blue and yellow. Swirl, swirl. "Green, like the paddock!"

"Verde," said Rome the cow. "That's green in Italian."

Little Thunder mixed red and blue. "Purple!" He was so excited he splashed some on his nose.

Berlin the cow laughed. "Lila! That's purple in German."

Then Suzy added white to red. "Pink, like my collar!"

Last of all, Spike mixed black and white. "Grey, like a rain cloud."

They painted a giant rainbow on the barn wall. Every colour had a name in four languages.

Little Thunder looked at his purple nose. "I think I'm a work of art too!"