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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 815 · 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 neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) green (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  8. 8.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  9. 9.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  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: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) purple
  25. 25.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) red
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  29. 29.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) red
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green 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 and green? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow-green
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue

Answer key

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

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