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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 685 · 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: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  4. 4.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  19. 19.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) orange
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  30. 30.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) green
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) orange
  39. 39.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) purple (d) blue

Answer key

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

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