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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 487 · 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 is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) red (d) orange
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  6. 6.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  9. 9.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  11. 11.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) green (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) orange
  18. 18.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  19. 19.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  22. 22.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) yellow
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) red
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  28. 28.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-orange
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) blue-purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) purple

Answer key

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

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