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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 135 · 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: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  4. 4.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) red-orange (d) red
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) red (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  14. 14.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  17. 17.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) red
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) purple
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  30. 30.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) red (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange

Answer key

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

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