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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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