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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 189 · 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.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-green
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red-orange (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  13. 13.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  17. 17.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  19. 19.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue
  22. 22.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  23. 23.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-orange
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) red (d) red-purple
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) orange

Answer key

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

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