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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 745 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) red-orange
  7. 7.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) red
  12. 12.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  34. 34.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) grey (d) blue-green
  40. 40.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours

Answer key

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

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