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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 799 · 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 a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  2. 2.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) orange
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  25. 25.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  26. 26.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue-green
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-orange
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange

Answer key

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

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