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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 797 · 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 primary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  6. 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) orange
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  22. 22.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  26. 26.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) orange (b) red (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  29. 29.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  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.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) green (d) yellow-green
  38. 38.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  40. 40.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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