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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 227 · 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-green (b) red (c) green (d) yellow-green
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) red (d) green
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue-green
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) red-orange
  10. 10.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) blue
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  13. 13.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) purple
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  20. 20.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) orange
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) red-orange
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  25. 25.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  38. 38.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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