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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 389 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red-orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  6. 6.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue-green
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) orange
  18. 18.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  21. 21.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  24. 24.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  27. 27.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) green
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  39. 39.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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