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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 962 · 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  5. 5.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  8. 8.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  13. 13.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) red (d) purple
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  19. 19.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  29. 29.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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