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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 382 · 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 a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) purple
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) green
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  6. 6.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red (d) blue
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) blue-green
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red-orange
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  22. 22.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) red-orange (d) blue
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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