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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 906 · 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: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) purple
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) blue-green
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  13. 13.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) purple
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) red-purple
  22. 22.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue-purple
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  29. 29.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  30. 30.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) orange
  39. 39.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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