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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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