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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

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