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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 440 · 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, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  8. 8.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  12. 12.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) purple
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) red-purple (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  24. 24.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  30. 30.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) blue-green
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  36. 36.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red-orange
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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