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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 202 · 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) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  12. 12.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  19. 19.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  24. 24.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow-green
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) red (d) orange
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries

Answer key

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

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