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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 861 · 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.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  3. 3.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) red
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  21. 21.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) orange
  26. 26.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  27. 27.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  28. 28.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  36. 36.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) red

Answer key

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

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