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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 199 · 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 red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  6. 6.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) blue-green
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) red (d) red-orange
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue-purple
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) red-orange (d) blue
  20. 20.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  23. 23.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  40. 40.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white

Answer key

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

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