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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 45 · 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.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  3. 3.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  5. 5.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) red-purple
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  9. 9.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  13. 13.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) blue
  15. 15.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  21. 21.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) green
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  31. 31.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) green

Answer key

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

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