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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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