← The colour wheel lesson New set →

Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 379 · 40 questions
TalentJR

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.

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

Answer key

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

Free art and painting lessons, practice and worksheets at talentjr.in/art-for-kids