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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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