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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 847 · 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 the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) blue (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) purple (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  14. 14.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  17. 17.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  23. 23.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  27. 27.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  31. 31.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  34. 34.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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