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