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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 271 · 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, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-purple
  6. 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) purple
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) grey
  9. 9.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  16. 16.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-green
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-green
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) blue-green
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) orange
  30. 30.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) purple (d) blue
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  37. 37.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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