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