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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 344 · 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) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  2. 2.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) grey (d) blue-green
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) red
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  37. 37.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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