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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 149 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  2. 2.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  6. 6.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
  7. 7.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  20. 20.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-orange
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) green
  28. 28.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red-orange
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) purple (b) green (c) red-orange (d) red
  40. 40.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?

Answer key

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

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