KS1 Writing Colours | Recognising Different Colours

English Quiz - Writing - Colours (Questions)

Writing Colours aims to help KS1 children recognise the names of colours and encourages them to use them as adjectives in their writing. This task will also expand their vocabulary, English language and all-round literacy.

There are many colours in the world. How many colours do you think you know? Test your knowledge on colours.

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Which colour comes next in the rainbow song: red, yellow, pink, green, purple and ....

[ ]	orange
[ ]	green
[ ]	beige
[ ]	indigo

Which of these is not a colour in the traffic lights?

[ ]	green
[ ]	red
[ ]	pink
[ ]	amber

What colour is this?

[ ]	red
[ ]	blue
[ ]	purple
[ ]	orange

What colour is this?

[ ]	orangutang
[ ]	peach
[ ]	yellow
[ ]	orange

What colour is this?

[ ]	blew
[ ]	blue
[ ]	brown
[ ]	beige

Which of these words is not a colour?

[ ]	beige
[ ]	cream
[ ]	wood
[ ]	brown

What colour is this?

[ ]	purple
[ ]	pink
[ ]	plum
[ ]	peach

Which of these words describes a fruit and a colour?

[ ]	red
[ ]	plum
[ ]	yellow
[ ]	green

Which of these words describes a fruit and a colour?

[ ]	green
[ ]	beige
[ ]	peach
[ ]	amber

10.

Which of these words is not a colour?

[ ]	gold
[ ]	silver
[ ]	square
[ ]	black

English Quiz - Writing - Colours (Answers)

Which colour comes next in the rainbow song: red, yellow, pink, green, purple and ....

[x]	orange
[ ]	green
[ ]	beige
[ ]	indigo

The song goes: red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue. I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too!

Which of these is not a colour in the traffic lights?

[ ]	green
[ ]	red
[x]	pink
[ ]	amber

Amber is also the name of a precious stone that is amber in colour.

What colour is this?

[ ]	red
[ ]	blue
[x]	purple
[ ]	orange

Carrots were once purple!

What colour is this?

[ ]	orangutang
[ ]	peach
[ ]	yellow
[x]	orange

Orange is the colour and name of a fruit. Carrots are now orange and have been since the 16th Century.

What colour is this?

[ ]	blew
[x]	blue
[ ]	brown
[ ]	beige

In Rome, the public servants would wear blue.

Which of these words is not a colour?

[ ]	beige
[ ]	cream
[x]	wood
[ ]	brown

We could say the outside bark is brown and inside it is beige or cream coloured.

What colour is this?

[ ]	purple
[x]	pink
[ ]	plum
[ ]	peach

People wear pink ribbons to show their support for breast cancer and help raise money for that charity.

Which of these words describes a fruit and a colour?

[ ]	red
[x]	plum
[ ]	yellow
[ ]	green

There are a few fruits that have the same name as a colour, or a few colours that have the same name as a fruit!

Which of these words describes a fruit and a colour?

[ ]	green
[ ]	beige
[x]	peach
[ ]	amber

You can describe the sky as peach or a person's cheeks as peach.

10.

Which of these words is not a colour?

[ ]	gold
[ ]	silver
[x]	square
[ ]	black

There are so many ways to describe a colour, so next time you say somebody opened the door, say they opened the huge golden door, or the bright pink door.