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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 265 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) red
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) green
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  11. 11.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  13. 13.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) purple
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  24. 24.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow-green
  28. 28.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  31. 31.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  33. 33.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  35. 35.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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