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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 95 · 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: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  4. 4.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) red-purple
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  27. 27.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  29. 29.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) red-orange
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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