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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 580 · 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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) green (d) red
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) green
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  18. 18.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) grey (d) blue-green
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  24. 24.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  29. 29.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) orange (d) red-purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  38. 38.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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