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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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