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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 209 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) grey (d) red
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) green (d) red-orange
  6. 6.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) green (d) red
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
  13. 13.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) green
  15. 15.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  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.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  32. 32.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  33. 33.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  38. 38.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) red-orange

Answer key

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

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