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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 500 · 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.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) purple
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  5. 5.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) blue
  12. 12.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  19. 19.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) purple
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  24. 24.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) orange
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  32. 32.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  37. 37.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) grey
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  39. 39.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) red-purple

Answer key

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

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