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