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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 857 · 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 red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) red
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  7. 7.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  15. 15.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) green
  26. 26.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-green
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  32. 32.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) blue
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  38. 38.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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