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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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