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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 692 · 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: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  5. 5.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  15. 15.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  17. 17.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) red
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  27. 27.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) green (d) red-purple
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) red
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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