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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 481 · 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: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) purple
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  4. 4.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  10. 10.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  14. 14.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  17. 17.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  19. 19.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) blue
  22. 22.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) red (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  25. 25.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  36. 36.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange

Answer key

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

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