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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 345 · 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) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue-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.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  4. 4.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  5. 5.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) green (d) yellow
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) grey
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) orange
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) red-purple
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  18. 18.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  22. 22.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue-purple
  24. 24.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) green (d) purple
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  34. 34.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  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, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) red-orange

Answer key

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

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