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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 545 · 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 the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue-purple
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) blue-green
  15. 15.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  17. 17.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) red (d) blue-purple
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-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-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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