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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 984 · 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: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) green
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  13. 13.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  18. 18.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) red-orange
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red
  25. 25.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red
  40. 40.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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