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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 547 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) red-purple
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  20. 20.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  22. 22.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-purple
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  34. 34.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) red-orange
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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