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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 491 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) green
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) green
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  23. 23.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) blue-green
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) blue-green
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  36. 36.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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