[header] How to describe a color to a blind person [title] Using touch to describe colors. [step] Have the person hold certain objects while you tell them what color it is. It might be helpful to consider using objects that are almost always a certain color. 
[substeps] Have the person hold different pieces of wood, touch the bark of a tree, or touch dirt on the ground, and explain that these things are all brown. Say, " brown feels like the earth, or the dead parts of things that grew out of the dirt from the earth.