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