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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 128 · 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: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) orange
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  6. 6.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  7. 7.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) red
  11. 11.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  13. 13.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  18. 18.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red-orange
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  23. 23.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) orange
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  33. 33.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  35. 35.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) red
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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