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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) purple
- 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
- 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
- 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
- 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red
- 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
- 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) green
- 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) orange (d) red-orange
- 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
- 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
- 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
- 13.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
- 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
- 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
- 17.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 18.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 19.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) red-purple (d) orange
- 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
- 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) yellow-green
- 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
- 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) red-purple
- 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) green
- 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-orange
- 29.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
- 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) blue
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
- 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
- 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
- 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
- 37.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
- 39.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
- 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
Answer key
- True
- yellow
- 12
- blue
- yellow-green
- purple
- True
- red-purple
- blue-green
- primary colour
- primary colour
- False
- False
- 6
- True
- blue
- True
- True
- False
- red-purple
- yellow
- True
- orange
- False
- tertiary colour
- red
- red-orange
- green
- True
- True
- orange
- yellow-green
- yellow-orange
- green
- tertiary colour
- orange
- False
- yellow-green
- 6
- secondary colour
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