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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 478 · 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 tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  2. 2.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  4. 4.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  23. 23.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  27. 27.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) red
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  31. 31.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  34. 34.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) blue

Answer key

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

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