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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 688 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red
  6. 6.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) green
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) orange
  18. 18.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-orange (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  27. 27.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  33. 33.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  36. 36.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  37. 37.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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