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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 80 · 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: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue-purple
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  8. 8.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) yellow-green
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) red-purple
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  17. 17.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-purple
  19. 19.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  20. 20.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  24. 24.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  36. 36.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) purple

Answer key

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

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