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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 780 · 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) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) green
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  12. 12.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) red-purple
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) red-orange
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) red (d) red-orange
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) purple (d) red-purple
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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