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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 532 · 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) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  2. 2.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red
  17. 17.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-orange (d) orange
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) purple
  33. 33.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  35. 35.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) blue
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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