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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 246 · 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: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  12. 12.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between green and blue. (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 primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) red-orange (d) orange
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red-orange
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) yellow
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  34. 34.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  38. 38.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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