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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 975 · 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: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  6. 6.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  12. 12.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue-purple
  18. 18.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-purple
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  21. 21.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  23. 23.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  27. 27.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) red-purple (d) orange
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue-green
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-orange

Answer key

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

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