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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 960 · 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-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) purple (d) red-purple
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  18. 18.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) blue
  20. 20.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) green (d) orange
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  30. 30.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  33. 33.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  36. 36.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red

Answer key

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

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