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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 397 · 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.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
  4. 4.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue-green
  10. 10.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  13. 13.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  15. 15.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) red
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) purple
  31. 31.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) red-purple (d) orange
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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