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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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