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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 931 · 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 yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red
  5. 5.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue-green
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) green
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  15. 15.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  21. 21.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  25. 25.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  38. 38.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  39. 39.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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