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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 213 · 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.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  3. 3.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) red (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) purple
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  23. 23.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  25. 25.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red-purple
  28. 28.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) blue-green
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  39. 39.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) purple

Answer key

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

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