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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 574 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) green (d) yellow
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  23. 23.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  25. 25.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) blue
  29. 29.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
  32. 32.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  40. 40.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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