What color is up?

Up is blue because…

• “The sky is blue.”
• “The sky is always blue, behind the clouds, in the day and also in the night.”
• “Well, when you look up, usually you see the sky, and the sky in usually blue.”
• “Because of the sky.”
• “The sky is blue!”
• “The sky is up.”
• “ Because the sky is normally blue, and the sky is up.”
• “There is this movie called ‘Up’ that has this little boy and a grandpa and a house with balloons. The movie was made in 2009. And 2009 is when Barack Obama became the president of the US. Barack Obama is a Democrat, and Democrats are blue.”
• “What’s up? The sky.”
• “Sky.”

Up is green because…

• “Arrows pointing up are usually green; down is red.”
• “Because like ‘things are looking up’ is positive, which is green.”

Up is red because…

• “Red is action, heat rises, and flames burn upwards.”

Up is black because…

• “Arrows are definitely black, and up has an arrow.”
• “Up is black because the universe is black and it’s ‘below’ us.”

Up is yellow because…

• “Up is yellow because, up signifies progress or being uplifted and that sparks joy, and joy is yellow.”

Up is orange because…

• “It makes me think of Ocean O’Connell Rosenberg singing, ‘I get up, I get up.’”