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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 61 · 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.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
  4. 4.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) green (d) red-purple
  13. 13.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) purple
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red-orange
  23. 23.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  29. 29.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) red
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  39. 39.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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