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