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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 300 · 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: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) green (d) blue-purple
  5. 5.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red
  12. 12.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) purple
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  20. 20.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) purple (d) blue
  22. 22.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) grey
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  28. 28.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) red (d) purple
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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