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.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
- 2.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
- 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) green (d) yellow-green
- 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
- 7.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
- 10.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-purple
- 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
- 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
- 15.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
- 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
- 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
- 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
- 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
- 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
- 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
- 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
- 24.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple
- 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
- 29.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
- 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
- 31.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
- 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) green
- 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
- 36.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 37.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
- 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
- 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) orange
Answer key
- 6
- False
- analogous colours
- True
- yellow
- False
- True
- False
- True
- True
- False
- red-purple
- orange
- secondary colour
- True
- 12
- orange
- yellow-orange
- secondary colour
- tertiary colour
- secondary colour
- primary colour
- primary colour
- False
- True
- purple
- blue-purple
- blue
- 6
- yellow-orange
- False
- True
- tertiary colour
- blue
- False
- False
- False
- tertiary colour
- tertiary colour
- red
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