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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 451 · 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: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  4. 4.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) yellow
  11. 11.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  15. 15.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red
  17. 17.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) red
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) grey
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) orange
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) orange
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) blue
  34. 34.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue-purple
  37. 37.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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