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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 139 · 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.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red (d) blue
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  5. 5.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) red
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  12. 12.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  27. 27.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) red-orange (d) orange
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) red
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) red
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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