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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 558 · 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) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) green
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  5. 5.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red-orange
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  19. 19.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  22. 22.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  26. 26.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) purple
  30. 30.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  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.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) green
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary

Answer key

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

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