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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 109 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) purple
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  28. 28.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  30. 30.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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