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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 52 · 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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-orange
  3. 3.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) green
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) orange
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) blue
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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