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