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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 605 · 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: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  11. 11.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) green
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  19. 19.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  23. 23.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  26. 26.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red-orange (d) orange
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) green
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) orange
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) purple
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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