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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 999 · 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 orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  7. 7.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  14. 14.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) red (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  17. 17.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  19. 19.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) green (d) blue-green
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  35. 35.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  39. 39.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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