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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 358 · 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 colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  5. 5.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-green
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) green
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) orange
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) green
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) purple
  19. 19.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) blue
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  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 is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  28. 28.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) orange
  33. 33.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?

Answer key

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

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