Abstract
Children's plastic arts are ways to express their color affection with color. The colors they choose differ according to eivironment, age, sex and so on. I tried to investigate whether children connect color to sex words and affective words. Moreover, if there were relations between words, I note those charateristics. I presented 21 color samples to them, and made them choose one connected to the word I said. The subjects of this research were 122 children of 3-5 years old. The time required was about 30 minutes. This investigation was carried out in Feburuary, 2000. The stereotypical answer of "afraid" with black, and "girl" with pink showed that this stereotype is true. About STDEV, "grandfather" and "grandmother" were small because I thought that it was a difficult general idea to symbolize these words by color. The children responded realistically to words that had a strong association for them, words that show a person with beige and "grandfather" with white. There was a difference in sex as for "favorite color". Girls "favorite color" was connected with "pretty", "kind" and color like "girl". Boys' "favorite color" was correlated with color like "boy", "afraid" and "strong". The children seemed to choose colors according to the distance from themselves, as well as connection to colors for words like "boy", "girl", "older brother", "older sister", "grandfather" and "grandmother".
