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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 778 · 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 the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) red-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  7. 7.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) green
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  13. 13.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) purple
  16. 16.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  19. 19.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) red-purple
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red-orange
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  33. 33.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) grey
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  40. 40.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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