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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 176 · 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 yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  2. 2.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  11. 11.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) red-purple (d) purple
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) purple (d) red-purple
  15. 15.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  17. 17.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) purple
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) orange
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  28. 28.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue
  32. 32.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  38. 38.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  39. 39.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue

Answer key

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

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