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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 849 · 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) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  4. 4.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  12. 12.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-purple (d) orange
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) green
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  29. 29.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  40. 40.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours

Answer key

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

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