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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 974 · 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.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  2. 2.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  5. 5.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) orange (d) red-orange
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red (d) red-orange
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) red
  15. 15.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) red-purple
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  28. 28.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  34. 34.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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