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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 427 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  8. 8.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  13. 13.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  22. 22.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) red
  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.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) green
  33. 33.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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