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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 289 · 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: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) blue (d) red-purple
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) orange
  12. 12.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) blue-green
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  20. 20.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  23. 23.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) red
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  31. 31.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue-purple
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) green
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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