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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 484 · 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 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  3. 3.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  4. 4.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  5. 5.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) purple
  19. 19.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue
  22. 22.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is 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 (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) yellow
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  33. 33.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) purple
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  38. 38.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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