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