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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 211 · 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) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) purple
  15. 15.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) red-purple
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  22. 22.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  29. 29.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  32. 32.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) purple
  34. 34.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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