Pacca Alpaca: Basic Colours

Pacca Alpaca: Basic Colours is an animated video for children aged 4 to 9 in which Pacca Alpaca shows them four basic colours, red, yellow, blue and green, in the world around them.

Pacca Alpaca is a fantastically fluffy guide who travels the world with children, discovering languages and cultures along the way. This episode opens with Pacca as a painter in a beret, and then the colours come one after another, each named out loud and shown in big letters made of pipe cleaners, tape and other things.

The cartoon alpaca pops up in real photographs and film, often dressed for the part: in sunglasses, in a snorkel, or hiding in a bowl. Children see red tomatoes, red peppers, a red post box and a red feather; a lemon, pears, a sponge, rubber gloves and a yellow van; a blue car, a blue front door and blue cotton buds; and a green bin, lily pads, limes and some green slime. The colours come round again and again, so children soon start shouting out the names before Pacca does.

At the end comes a challenge: "Your turn! Find something red!" and the same for yellow, blue and green. The video lasts about six minutes and is not music-free.