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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 415 · 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: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) red-purple
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue-green
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  11. 11.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  13. 13.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  27. 27.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  31. 31.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) green (d) blue-green
  39. 39.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) yellow-green

Answer key

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

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