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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 142 · 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 blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) orange
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
  5. 5.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  9. 9.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) green
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) red-purple (d) red
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue-purple

Answer key

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

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