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