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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 473 · 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.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-purple
  2. 2.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  19. 19.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
  23. 23.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) red
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  31. 31.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red-purple
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) green (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  36. 36.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-green

Answer key

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

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