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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 285 · 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 a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) blue-green
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) blue-green
  16. 16.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  32. 32.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  34. 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) red
  36. 36.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  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. yellow-green
  2. red-orange
  3. primary colour
  4. blue-green
  5. blue-purple
  6. 6
  7. grey
  8. red
  9. 12
  10. True
  11. True
  12. red-purple
  13. tertiary colour
  14. blue
  15. orange
  16. 6
  17. blue
  18. True
  19. tertiary colour
  20. False
  21. a primary + a secondary
  22. True
  23. yellow-orange
  24. False
  25. False
  26. tertiary colour
  27. purple
  28. orange
  29. green
  30. yellow-green
  31. red
  32. False
  33. yellow
  34. purple
  35. yellow-orange
  36. True
  37. green
  38. False
  39. analogous colours
  40. primary colour

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