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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 263 · 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) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) purple
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) green
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) orange
  7. 7.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  12. 12.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) orange
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) purple
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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