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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 201 · 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.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  3. 3.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-purple
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  14. 14.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) red
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  25. 25.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  27. 27.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) orange
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  38. 38.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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