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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 164 · 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: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) green
  4. 4.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  11. 11.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) red
  15. 15.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-orange
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) green
  35. 35.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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