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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 50 · 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.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  2. 2.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow-green
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) green
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) purple
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) purple
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) red (d) blue-green
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  35. 35.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  36. 36.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) green (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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