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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 48 · 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 primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) red (d) red-purple
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  3. 3.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  8. 8.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  15. 15.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) orange
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) green
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) blue
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) green (d) red-purple
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) red
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) blue (d) blue-green
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) green
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-green

Answer key

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

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