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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 921 · 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: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) purple
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) orange
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) green (d) red-orange
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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