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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 465 · 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: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) green
  9. 9.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) red-purple (d) orange
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) red-purple (d) red
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) red-orange
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) orange
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  25. 25.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) green (c) blue (d) red-orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  38. 38.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange

Answer key

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

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