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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 337 · 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.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  2. 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red-purple
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  23. 23.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) blue
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue-green
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue-green
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue

Answer key

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

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