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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 245 · 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.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) blue (d) red
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  19. 19.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-green
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  35. 35.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple

Answer key

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

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