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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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