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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 521 · 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 blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) orange
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  12. 12.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) green (d) yellow-green
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) purple (d) blue-green
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) red-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  35. 35.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple

Answer key

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

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