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