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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 339 · 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.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) green
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  4. 4.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  7. 7.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  8. 8.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) purple
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) orange
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) green
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) green
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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