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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 226 · 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 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  5. 5.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  9. 9.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  13. 13.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  18. 18.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  27. 27.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) green (d) yellow-green
  29. 29.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  34. 34.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) purple

Answer key

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

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