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