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