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