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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 898 · 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: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) red (d) red-purple
  11. 11.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  19. 19.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red-orange
  23. 23.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red-purple
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) green (c) red-orange (d) orange
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  34. 34.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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