Personality colors for kids
Kids color quiz
Nine fun picture questions. Find your "color buddy" and print your own color card.
Printable activities
Color cards, a color-mixing worksheet, a feelings color wheel, a coloring page and a family color chart.
What kids will find here
Kids love sorting things by color, and talking about "what color are you?" is an easy, playful way into bigger conversations: how people are different, how to be a good friend, and how to name feelings. Our kids quiz gives every child one of eight "color buddies," such as Amber Sunshine, Emerald Builder or Sage Listener. Each one is described only in positive, encouraging terms, with one gentle growth tip.
Every color is a good color. The quiz says so, and so should we.
For parents and teachers
How this section is built:
- No ads. The kids pages do not load any advertising code. Elsewhere on the site, ads are not targeted at children.
- No personal information. The kids quiz does not ask for a name, email, age, photo or location. Answers are scored inside the browser and are not sent to us.
- Analytics only, with ad features off. We use Google Analytics to count page visits in aggregate. On kids pages, Google signals and ad personalization are disabled. See our privacy policy.
- Not a test. This is play, not psychology. It does not measure or diagnose anything about a child.
Why talk about personality with children?
Social and emotional learning (SEL) frameworks used in many schools include self-awareness and relationship skills among their core competencies. CASEL, a nonprofit that publishes one of the most widely used frameworks, lists self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making as its five core areas (CASEL). A color quiz is a low-stakes way to practice the first and fourth: noticing "this is how I like to do things" and "my friend likes to do things differently."
Classroom ideas (15 to 30 minutes)
- Color corners. Read a quiz question aloud and send kids to one side of the room or the other. Ask a volunteer from each side why they chose it. The lesson: both answers are fine.
- Color buddy cards. Kids take the quiz, print or draw their color card and add one thing they are good at.
- Team mix. Form small groups with different colors and give them a building challenge. Afterward ask: "What did each color bring?"
- Feelings wheel. Use the feelings color wheel printable. Researchers have found that people around the world share many color-feeling links, like red with anger or love, though not all (Jonauskaite et al., 2020). Kids may surprise you with their own.
Things to avoid
- Don't use colors to group kids by ability or to predict behavior or grades.
- Don't let a color become a label ("you're such a Crimson, always rushing"). Keep it about strengths and choices.
- Remember color vision differences. Some children see colors differently. The U.S. National Eye Institute says about 1 in 12 men have color vision deficiency, and that men are at much higher risk than women (NEI). Our printables label every color with a word so no child is left out.
More free family activities
If your kids enjoy coloring, Slumber Tales has free printable coloring pages to pair with bedtime stories.