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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 43 · 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 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) blue-green
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  3. 3.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) green
  8. 8.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) red
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  19. 19.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) grey
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  25. 25.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  37. 37.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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