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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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