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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) red
- 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
- 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
- 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
- 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
- 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
- 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
- 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) green
- 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
- 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
- 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) purple
- 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
- 15.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
- 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
- 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow
- 18.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
- 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
- 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) blue-green
- 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
- 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
- 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
- 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
- 26.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
- 27.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
- 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
- 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) blue
- 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) green
- 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
- 36.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 37.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
- 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
- 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- red-orange
- secondary colour
- False
- orange
- green
- a primary + a secondary
- red-purple
- tertiary colour
- blue-purple
- True
- blue
- yellow-orange
- yellow-green
- red
- analogous colours
- orange
- green
- 12
- secondary colour
- blue
- 6
- yellow
- purple
- blue
- yellow-green
- 6
- grey
- True
- True
- True
- blue-purple
- blue-green
- red
- green
- tertiary colour
- False
- True
- purple
- True
- False
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