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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 697 · 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 a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) red
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) orange
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) green
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) red-purple
  15. 15.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) green
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  24. 24.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) red
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  32. 32.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  35. 35.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  38. 38.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) orange

Answer key

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

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