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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 403 · 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 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  3. 3.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) red-orange
  16. 16.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  18. 18.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) purple
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  26. 26.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) purple
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) yellow
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange

Answer key

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

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