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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 510 · 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.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) green (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  4. 4.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-orange
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) green
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) orange
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  16. 16.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  20. 20.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) red-purple
  23. 23.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) red (d) green
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  33. 33.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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