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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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