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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 561 · 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 a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) red (d) yellow
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  19. 19.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) green (d) blue-green
  24. 24.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  25. 25.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  28. 28.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) purple
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) red
  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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red

Answer key

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

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