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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 937 · 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-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) yellow
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) green
  15. 15.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) purple
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  31. 31.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  32. 32.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red
  36. 36.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  39. 39.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  40. 40.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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