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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 570 · 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 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  5. 5.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  7. 7.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  8. 8.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple
  21. 21.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) green
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) red-purple
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) purple
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  34. 34.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange

Answer key

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

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