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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 120 · 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: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  7. 7.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  9. 9.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  16. 16.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) orange
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red-orange (d) purple
  28. 28.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  34. 34.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) green
  39. 39.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red

Answer key

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

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