Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids
Artist's tip (Go round the circle): Order: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple, red-purple. Primary: red, yellow, blue. Secondary: orange, green, purple. Tertiary: the six two-word colours. Neighbours on the wheel are called analogous colours; black, white, grey and brown are neutrals and are not on the wheel.
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- 1.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
- 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
- 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
- 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue
- 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
- 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
- 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
- 10.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red
- 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red
- 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
- 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
- 17.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
- 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
- 19.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-purple
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
- 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
- 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) red
- 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
- 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
- 26.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
- 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow
- 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
- 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red-orange
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
- 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
- 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-green (d) green
- 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
- 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
- 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
- 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
- 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-green (d) green
- 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) orange
- 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- secondary colour
- 6
- purple
- False
- primary colour
- red-purple
- True
- False
- False
- True
- blue-purple
- red
- True
- orange
- False
- secondary colour
- 12
- orange
- True
- red-orange
- red
- yellow-green
- red-purple
- blue-purple
- blue-green
- 6
- purple
- green
- green
- blue
- tertiary colour
- blue-green
- orange
- True
- primary colour
- grey
- red
- green
- yellow-green
- True
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