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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 97 · 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.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) red-purple
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) orange (d) red-purple
  3. 3.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) blue
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  26. 26.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) blue
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) green (d) purple
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  35. 35.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) red
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  37. 37.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue

Answer key

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

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