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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 533 · 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.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) blue
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-green
  6. 6.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) green
  11. 11.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  13. 13.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) purple
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  20. 20.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  21. 21.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  29. 29.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  33. 33.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  39. 39.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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