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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 422 · 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 orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  4. 4.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  10. 10.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) blue-purple
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  19. 19.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  20. 20.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) purple
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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