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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 175 · 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  4. 4.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) grey
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  8. 8.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  15. 15.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  19. 19.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  22. 22.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) orange
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) blue-green
  29. 29.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  30. 30.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  31. 31.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) green
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-green
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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