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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 862 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  6. 6.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) green
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  20. 20.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-orange (d) purple
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  32. 32.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) orange
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  36. 36.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  39. 39.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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