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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 611 · 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) purple
  5. 5.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) blue-green
  12. 12.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  16. 16.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  32. 32.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) red
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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