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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 124 · 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: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) green
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  38. 38.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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