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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 107 · 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, purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) purple
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  7. 7.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  8. 8.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) red-orange
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  17. 17.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  18. 18.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  23. 23.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) green
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  31. 31.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-orange
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green

Answer key

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

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