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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 655 · 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 primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  6. 6.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  10. 10.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  15. 15.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red (d) orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  37. 37.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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