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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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