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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 260 · 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 secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) blue
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) green
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  16. 16.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) yellow
  20. 20.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  33. 33.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) red (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?

Answer key

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

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