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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 386 · 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: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  4. 4.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-purple
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  16. 16.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) green
  18. 18.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  24. 24.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red-orange
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) red-purple (d) orange
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  38. 38.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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