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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 311 · 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.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue
  5. 5.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-purple
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) red-orange
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  17. 17.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  19. 19.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) green (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  32. 32.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) red (d) red-orange
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple

Answer key

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

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