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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 531 · 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: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) orange (d) blue-green
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) blue-purple
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) green (d) red-purple
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) purple
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  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, yellow-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) purple
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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