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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 158 · 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: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  4. 4.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) purple
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) green
  11. 11.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue-green
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) green
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange

Answer key

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

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