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