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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 58 · 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, yellow-green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  4. 4.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  13. 13.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  15. 15.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) green
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  18. 18.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  23. 23.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) green (d) blue
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) red (d) blue

Answer key

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

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