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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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