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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 850 · 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 is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) green (d) red-orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) green (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  4. 4.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) red-orange
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) red-orange
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) yellow
  18. 18.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  23. 23.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  24. 24.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) blue
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) blue-purple
  39. 39.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours

Answer key

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

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