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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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