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