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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 354 · 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) red-purple (d) blue
  2. 2.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) green (d) red-orange
  11. 11.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) purple
  18. 18.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) orange (d) blue-green
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) red
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) blue
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue-purple
  30. 30.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  32. 32.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) green
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-green
  39. 39.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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