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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 436 · 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) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  9. 9.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  17. 17.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  23. 23.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) purple
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  38. 38.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) green (d) yellow-green
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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