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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 877 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  10. 10.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) blue
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) red (d) red-orange
  25. 25.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  28. 28.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  35. 35.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  37. 37.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) red (d) blue-purple

Answer key

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

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