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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 980 · 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 neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) orange (d) blue-green
  2. 2.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  11. 11.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-green
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  37. 37.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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