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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 1 · 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 secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  9. 9.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  26. 26.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  28. 28.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) blue
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple

Answer key

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

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