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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 437 · 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, blue sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  5. 5.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) grey
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  10. 10.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  11. 11.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  18. 18.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) red
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) red-orange
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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