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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 293 · 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: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) green
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  9. 9.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) red
  11. 11.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) red
  14. 14.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  17. 17.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  23. 23.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  25. 25.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  29. 29.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-orange
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) red-orange

Answer key

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

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