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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 839 · 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) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) purple
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  13. 13.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) red
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) orange
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  19. 19.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) green
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) blue
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  26. 26.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) yellow
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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