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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 603 · 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: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-green
  8. 8.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  12. 12.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) orange (d) blue-green
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  23. 23.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple 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, yellow-green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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