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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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