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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 670 · 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) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) purple
  3. 3.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  5. 5.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) red
  9. 9.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) red
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  15. 15.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  23. 23.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) yellow
  26. 26.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) green
  28. 28.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  40. 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) orange

Answer key

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

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