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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 195 · 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 secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) red
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) blue (d) red-orange
  22. 22.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) orange
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red
  35. 35.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) purple
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?

Answer key

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

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