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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 956 · 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, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  9. 9.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  18. 18.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) green
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  26. 26.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) red-orange
  29. 29.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  31. 31.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) purple
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) red
  35. 35.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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