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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 993 · 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) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  9. 9.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue-purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) green
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  40. 40.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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