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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 196 · 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red-orange
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) orange
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) purple
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  21. 21.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) green
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  28. 28.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) purple
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) orange
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  39. 39.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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