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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 197 · 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 purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) green
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red
  5. 5.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  6. 6.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  9. 9.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  10. 10.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  28. 28.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) blue
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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