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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 148 · 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-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  12. 12.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) red-purple (d) purple
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) red-orange (d) orange
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red
  31. 31.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) blue
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) orange
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  40. 40.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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