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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 789 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) blue
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) orange
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  20. 20.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) orange
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) orange
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) green
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  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, red-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours

Answer key

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

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