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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 42 · 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-purple (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  2. 2.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) purple
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) green
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  12. 12.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) red-orange
  14. 14.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  19. 19.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  35. 35.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  36. 36.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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