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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 873 · 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 tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  2. 2.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  18. 18.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) blue
  26. 26.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) red
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  36. 36.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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