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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 259 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  5. 5.True or false: blue-purple 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 is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) red-orange
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  9. 9.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  23. 23.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) red-purple
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  36. 36.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) green

Answer key

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

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