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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 551 · 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) red-orange (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  5. 5.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) green
  9. 9.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) orange (d) blue-green
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  23. 23.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  31. 31.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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