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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 597 · 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.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) red
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-green
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) purple
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) purple
  20. 20.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) red
  24. 24.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  35. 35.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) red (d) red-purple
  37. 37.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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