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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 306 · 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 primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  2. 2.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  4. 4.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) red-orange
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) green
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) red
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) red (d) green
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  38. 38.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow-green
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) purple

Answer key

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

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