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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 636 · 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-green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red
  4. 4.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) orange
  6. 6.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  17. 17.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue-green
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) purple
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  29. 29.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  32. 32.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red
  34. 34.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) green (d) red
  40. 40.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries

Answer key

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

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