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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 973 · 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 colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  5. 5.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) red-orange
  10. 10.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  11. 11.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) purple
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) red
  25. 25.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  28. 28.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  31. 31.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) green (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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