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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 517 · 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 red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) red
  11. 11.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  14. 14.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  19. 19.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) orange (d) red-orange
  21. 21.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) green
  25. 25.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  35. 35.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) purple

Answer key

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

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