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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 793 · 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 the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) purple (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-purple (d) orange
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) green
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) green
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  15. 15.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  16. 16.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) blue
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) blue
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  31. 31.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) blue
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) green

Answer key

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

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