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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 486 · 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 primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  6. 6.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  13. 13.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  26. 26.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue-purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  32. 32.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  33. 33.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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