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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 359 · 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) red-orange (d) green
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  19. 19.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) red (d) yellow
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  27. 27.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) red (c) red-orange (d) blue
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) blue (d) blue-green
  34. 34.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) red
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  40. 40.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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