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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 903 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) red
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) green
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) green (d) blue
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  24. 24.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  28. 28.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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