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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 682 · 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 simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) green (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) green
  6. 6.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  23. 23.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  24. 24.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red
  30. 30.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) red
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  37. 37.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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