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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 385 · 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.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) green
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  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 purple and red? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) red
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  19. 19.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue (d) red-orange
  22. 22.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  29. 29.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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