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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 122 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  4. 4.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) green (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  13. 13.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  15. 15.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  24. 24.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  27. 27.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) green
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) red-orange (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) red (d) red-orange
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  39. 39.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange

Answer key

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

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