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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 516 · 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 secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) purple
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  5. 5.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  7. 7.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) green (d) orange
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple
  16. 16.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) yellow
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries

Answer key

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

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