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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 968 · 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 primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-purple
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) blue (d) red-orange
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) green (d) red
  6. 6.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) green (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  15. 15.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) red
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  19. 19.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  22. 22.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red-orange
  28. 28.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  30. 30.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  32. 32.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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