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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 469 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) blue
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  10. 10.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) blue
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) green
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) blue
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) green
  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.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) purple
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue
  37. 37.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) grey (d) blue-green
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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