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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 150 · 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 of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  2. 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  3. 3.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  7. 7.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  28. 28.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  29. 29.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  30. 30.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) red
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) orange

Answer key

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

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