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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 381 · 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 a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) purple
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  7. 7.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) red-purple
  9. 9.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) red-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue-green
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  16. 16.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) blue
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) orange
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green 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, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-orange
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue

Answer key

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

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