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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 456 · 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: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  4. 4.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) red-orange
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) orange
  9. 9.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  13. 13.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  15. 15.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  21. 21.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  24. 24.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  27. 27.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) orange
  30. 30.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) purple
  36. 36.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue

Answer key

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

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