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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 798 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  5. 5.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) green
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  13. 13.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) orange
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  19. 19.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  21. 21.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  22. 22.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  23. 23.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red
  29. 29.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-purple
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  38. 38.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) green (d) orange
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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