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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 312 · 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, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  9. 9.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red-purple
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) blue-green
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red-orange
  33. 33.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-orange
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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