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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 418 · 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, purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  3. 3.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) blue-green
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  8. 8.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) red
  10. 10.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  20. 20.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  22. 22.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  23. 23.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) blue
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) purple
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) green
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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