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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 504 · 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 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) green
  3. 3.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) green (d) blue-purple
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  12. 12.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-green
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  20. 20.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) green
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
  29. 29.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) yellow-green
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  39. 39.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green

Answer key

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

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