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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 375 · 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 orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-orange
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) purple
  22. 22.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) red
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) red-purple
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue-green
  35. 35.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-green
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) purple
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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