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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 161 · 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 a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-purple
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) purple
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue (d) red
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  16. 16.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) orange
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) green
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) orange (d) red-orange
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  38. 38.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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