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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 702 · 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.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) yellow-green
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) green
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  8. 8.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  10. 10.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  11. 11.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  12. 12.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red-purple
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  25. 25.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  26. 26.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  35. 35.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  37. 37.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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