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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 501 · 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) red-orange
  5. 5.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-purple
  7. 7.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  9. 9.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  15. 15.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  17. 17.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  28. 28.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  33. 33.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) orange
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) blue-purple

Answer key

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

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