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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 298 · 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: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  5. 5.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) red-purple
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) green (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red
  31. 31.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) red-orange
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red
  34. 34.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-orange
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) blue
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) green

Answer key

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

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