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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 398 · 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, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  9. 9.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) blue
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red-purple
  23. 23.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  26. 26.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) red-purple
  31. 31.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  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.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) yellow
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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