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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 578 · 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.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  23. 23.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  29. 29.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  38. 38.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) red
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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