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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 94 · 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.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  6. 6.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) red
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) purple
  16. 16.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) red
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue-green
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  28. 28.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  38. 38.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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