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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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