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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 44 · 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 blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  6. 6.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) orange (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) red
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) yellow
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) red-orange (d) purple
  21. 21.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  25. 25.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  26. 26.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) green (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) purple
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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