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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 90 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red-purple
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  7. 7.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  20. 20.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  28. 28.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) blue
  35. 35.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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