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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 269 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) grey
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  9. 9.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red-orange
  13. 13.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue
  15. 15.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) red-orange
  20. 20.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  29. 29.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  35. 35.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  36. 36.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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