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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 188 · 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) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  10. 10.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) green
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  26. 26.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  31. 31.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  32. 32.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  34. 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  35. 35.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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