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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 496 · 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) red (d) red-purple
  7. 7.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red
  15. 15.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  20. 20.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) red
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) green
  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.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  32. 32.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) red (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  38. 38.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green

Answer key

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

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