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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 144 · 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-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) red
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) purple
  10. 10.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  13. 13.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) orange (d) red-orange
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  28. 28.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red-orange
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue

Answer key

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

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