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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 274 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  2. 2.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) blue
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red-orange (d) purple
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) red
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) blue (d) purple
  27. 27.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  31. 31.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) purple (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) yellow
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) orange

Answer key

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

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