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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 988 · 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.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  5. 5.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) blue
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) orange
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  17. 17.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  24. 24.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  33. 33.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) red (d) orange

Answer key

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

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