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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 911 · 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, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) blue
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) red
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  30. 30.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary

Answer key

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

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