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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 116 · 40 questions
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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. 1.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  14. 14.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  17. 17.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  27. 27.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  40. 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue

Answer key

  1. True
  2. 12
  3. tertiary colour
  4. secondary colour
  5. False
  6. False
  7. red
  8. analogous colours
  9. orange
  10. tertiary colour
  11. False
  12. False
  13. 6
  14. False
  15. grey
  16. green
  17. 6
  18. False
  19. blue-purple
  20. primary colour
  21. True
  22. secondary colour
  23. True
  24. False
  25. True
  26. yellow
  27. False
  28. red-orange
  29. False
  30. False
  31. tertiary colour
  32. a primary + a secondary
  33. tertiary colour
  34. green
  35. purple
  36. False
  37. blue
  38. True
  39. orange
  40. blue

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