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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 79 · 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: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) red-purple
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) green (d) yellow
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-orange
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  10. 10.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  19. 19.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  21. 21.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) green
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  28. 28.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) green
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  36. 36.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  37. 37.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red (b) green (c) red-orange (d) blue
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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