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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 207 · 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.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) red-purple (d) purple
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-purple
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) red
  19. 19.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) orange
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  35. 35.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) grey
  36. 36.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  38. 38.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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