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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 376 · 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.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) green
  7. 7.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) red
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  27. 27.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  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.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  32. 32.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) red
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) green
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?

Answer key

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

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