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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 781 · 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.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) green
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) red-purple (d) purple
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-orange
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  15. 15.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) red-orange
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) red (d) green
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-green
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  23. 23.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  25. 25.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red
  32. 32.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red-purple
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  38. 38.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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