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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 453 · 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, red-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) blue
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  13. 13.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  18. 18.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  22. 22.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  29. 29.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) blue (d) red-orange
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) blue-green
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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