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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 329 · 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.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) blue
  3. 3.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-purple
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  18. 18.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  22. 22.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) green (d) purple
  34. 34.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) green (d) blue
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red (d) blue

Answer key

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

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