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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 60 · 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, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) red-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-purple
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) green (d) red-orange
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) blue-purple
  30. 30.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  39. 39.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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