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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 172 · 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 neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  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, purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) green
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) green (d) red
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) red
  31. 31.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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