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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 493 · 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 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  5. 5.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  17. 17.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-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 orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  28. 28.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) orange
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  40. 40.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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