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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 414 · 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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  4. 4.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) blue
  14. 14.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) orange
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue-green
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) orange
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green

Answer key

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

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