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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 421 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) blue-green
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) blue
  18. 18.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) green (d) red-purple
  23. 23.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  40. 40.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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