How would you explain colors to a blind person?

Having known and worked with the blind and having GF who is blind, I ask them to use their other senses, and this question has been asked often here.

Warm is the color of the sun

Fire is the color of red

Brown is the scent of steak on a grille

Blue is the cool of a breeze against a face

Green is the smell of the grass, moist on bare feet

Black is what you know

Love is every sense you have left to you.

Instead seeing all dark or black, colors have a lighter look and they're infused with hues to give each one very distinctive appearances. We have many colors with many different names because they vary widely in how they appear. They're a beautiful thing to behold. I am sorry you cannot see them. But, usually, people that have one sense taken away, have a stronger different sense. I would go on to give examples of very talented blind people, & how they've contributed. I'd also give the examples of how people use sight for evil. ={

(added: & explain to them major things that are certain major colors... like tell them the sun & moon are yellow; grass is green & so are the leaves of trees; the sky is different shades of blue, & can have white or gray or black clouds. THe clouds turn dark & black when they hold rain. We bleed red blood. We cry clear tears that have no color. They are translucent; we can see through them. Etc. =] <3 )

I would pray for them to some day receive their sight, and use it well. =]

If the person had never seen color, I'd probably try to relate it to temperature and touch.

I would divide colors into cold - cool - warm - hot categories.

Navy blue and black - cold

pale blue and green - cool

yellow and peach - warm

orange and red - hot

I might also compare certain colors to fabrics.

I see navy blue and black as velvet while green is satin, yellow is dotted swiss, and red is wool.

Colors might also be compared to a garden by smell and shape of flowers.

Green, as in grass and plant stems is easy.

Other colors would be more difficult and demand greater creative thinking.

I'd use cold water to explain blue...

I'd use hot water to explain red...

I'd use cotton to explain white(Or maybe pink)

... But I'm not sure about other colors.

It is impossible to explained color to someone who has NEVER been sighted. They have nothing to base a comparison to.

Red: Warm

blue: Cold

Green: Plants that grow (Um, that sucked, didn't it?)

give them references to different tastes, different sounds, different feelings, emotions, ask them to 'sense' joy and sorrow in different sounds and tell them, colours are to the eye as sounds are to the ears.

I wouldn't. I would just awkwardly walk away

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