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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 304 · 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 simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  4. 4.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  6. 6.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  11. 11.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) red (d) orange
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  22. 22.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) blue
  26. 26.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-green
  29. 29.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green

Answer key

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

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