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