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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 515 · 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) blue-green
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) purple
  7. 7.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  11. 11.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  17. 17.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) purple (d) blue-green
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) red
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) green
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) red-orange
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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