Why are school buses yellow?

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One thing almost all students have in common—except for some lucky ones who can walk to school—is that at some point, they will climb onboard a long yellow school bus.

The color yellow was picked because the black lettering on the buses can most easily be read against that color. School buses are out in the very early morning and late afternoon, when there might not be much light to see. The light bus color certainly helps!

Yellow was made the official color of school buses during a big school bus conference back in 1939. Although, Frank W. Cyr, the man who organized the conference, apparently always thought the color was more orange than yellow.

Yay for Yellow!

Do you have different colors of construction paper at home?  Try writing messages on each of them and seeing which color paper lets you read the message the easiest.  You can ask a friend to help out and write your friend secret messages too!

After this experiment, do you think yellow is a good color for school buses?