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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 601 · 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: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) green
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) yellow
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  24. 24.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) red (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-green
  27. 27.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  29. 29.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) red-orange
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) orange
  37. 37.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow-green

Answer key

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

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