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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 965 · 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 tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) red-orange
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) red
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) blue
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) purple
  21. 21.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  27. 27.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  30. 30.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  33. 33.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue-purple
  40. 40.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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