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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 362 · 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: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-green
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) red
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  29. 29.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) red-purple
  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, red sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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