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