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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 400 · 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.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) yellow-green
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) green
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) red-orange
  17. 17.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) red-orange
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  24. 24.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  30. 30.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) red-orange (d) blue
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) blue
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green

Answer key

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

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