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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 153 · 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) orange (d) purple
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) red
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  7. 7.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) blue
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  14. 14.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) purple (d) red-orange
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) green (d) red-purple
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  33. 33.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  38. 38.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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