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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 715 · 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.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) yellow
  2. 2.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  4. 4.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  6. 6.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) blue-green
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) orange
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) blue-green
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  25. 25.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) red
  31. 31.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  36. 36.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow-green
  40. 40.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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