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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 203 · 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 yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) green
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  9. 9.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue-green
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  27. 27.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  30. 30.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  34. 34.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) blue
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) green (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  38. 38.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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