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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 447 · 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: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  4. 4.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  7. 7.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  10. 10.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) green (d) purple
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  31. 31.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) red-purple
  37. 37.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  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 a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?

Answer key

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

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