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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 498 · 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) blue-purple (b) green (c) red-orange (d) red
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) purple
  14. 14.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  16. 16.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  22. 22.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) red
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  26. 26.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) red-purple
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  39. 39.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) blue-green

Answer key

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

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