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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 445 · 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 blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  15. 15.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) green
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) orange
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  28. 28.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) green
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  33. 33.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  39. 39.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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