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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 292 · 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 of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red-purple
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) red
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  11. 11.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  12. 12.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  15. 15.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) green
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  22. 22.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) blue
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  29. 29.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  32. 32.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  34. 34.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) grey
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  38. 38.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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