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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 137 · 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.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue-green
  7. 7.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) green
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  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 red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  31. 31.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-orange
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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