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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 377 · 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.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  4. 4.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) blue-green
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  18. 18.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue-purple
  21. 21.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  22. 22.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  27. 27.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) grey (d) red
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) green
  36. 36.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-green (d) blue
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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