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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 369 · 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) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) yellow
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) green
  16. 16.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) blue
  18. 18.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  22. 22.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue (b) green (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) green
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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