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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 242 · 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.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) red
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  19. 19.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  24. 24.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  32. 32.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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