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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 240 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  9. 9.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) orange
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) red-purple
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  22. 22.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  24. 24.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  35. 35.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) green
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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