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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 867 · 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 tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-orange (d) blue
  5. 5.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-orange
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) red-purple
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) green (c) red-orange (d) purple
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) orange
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours

Answer key

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

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