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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 805 · 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: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  3. 3.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) blue
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-orange
  25. 25.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  34. 34.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) orange
  40. 40.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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