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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 316 · 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.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) purple
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) orange
  7. 7.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  20. 20.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) red-orange
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  38. 38.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  40. 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue

Answer key

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

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