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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 668 · 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.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  4. 4.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  6. 6.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  8. 8.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red-orange
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red
  12. 12.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  15. 15.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) purple (d) red-orange
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  28. 28.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-green
  34. 34.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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