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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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