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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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